Quotes About Action

Confidence spark If you're feeling shaky about taking an action that could prove risky, use this exercise to determine if the action is what I call a best bet, a smart risk worth taking. First, analyze the pros and cons. Say you're offered a job working for a start-up company. How many pluses and minuses can you list? Which do you have more of? Second,

Breaking your stretch goal into a series of smaller, doable actions may help. What steps will you need to take to get to your goal? If your goal is a promotion, how can you get more visibility with power players? Which project can you put your hand up for that will showcase your skills and commitment? What else can you do to show that you are ready to advance? How can you attract a sponsor?

one action at a time will get you there. Once your goal has been achieved, acknowledge the courage it took and how you have grown throughout the process. Don't stop—find another stretch goal to tackle. Confidence is about stepping up over and over again, looking fear in the face and moving ahead anyway.

Confidence is the ability to step into uncharted territory and take the next right action, to get comfortable with the uncomfortable

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Ah, there are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No I recover myself they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Il suffit que nous bouchions nos oreilles au son de la musique, dans un salon où l'on danse, pour que les danseurs nous paraissent aussitôt ridicules. Combien d'actions humaines résisteraient à une épreuve de ce genre?

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Piensa como un hombre de acción, actúa como un hombre de pensamiento" (Henri-Louis Berson)

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.