Quotes About Action

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

History is the action and reaction of these two,— Nature and Thought;— two boys pushing each other on the curb-stone of the pavement.

Hope is wingèd — one wing faith-patience the other action-effort: and we must fly with both!

Rake leaves or move? I can't decide.

What we wanted to do we went and did, on our legs upstanding, and we faced all reproof and censure on our legs upstanding, and did not hide behind the skirts of classical economists and bourgeois philosophers, nor behind the skirts of subsidized preachers, professors, and editors.

You don't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

Q: So then they desist? A: Usually. Q: And if not? A: I pitch them into the sea.

keeping with the laconic Mongol traditions, he warned his sons not to talk too much. Only say what needs to be said. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others

Genghis Khan was a doer.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he told them.

Kill, don't mourn.

We've all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight. It's a terrible sin. If you don't make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn't count.

That's more easily said than done;

Forget the arduous, intellectualized number crunching and data grinding that gurus say you have to go through to get strategy right. Forget the scenario planning, yearlong studies, and hundred-plus-page reports. They're time-consuming and expensive, and you just don't need them. In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

So much to do, so much time

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Civilisation is not a collection of finished artefacts, it is the elaboration of processes. In the end, the march of man is the refinement of the hand in action.

I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas, which all D'Angelines regard fondly as the last Golden Era before the coming of Elua. Now, seeing it in action, I was not so sure.