Quotes About Action

Every choice had its risks, every choice its consequences. He would play the game to its conclusion.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.

What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one—contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

A imprensa argentina continuou a ridicularizar o Paraguai, e nenhuma ação foi tomada depois da chegada das notícias a respeito da ocupação das cidades Orientais pelos brasileiros, e falou-se que o Paraguai não iria sair do seu casulo.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.