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Quotes About Action

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
~ Alfred Nobel
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
~ Ramakrishna
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
~ Lee Iacocca
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
~ Eric Cantona
Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!
~ Steve Harvey
If you see a good fight, get in it.
~ Vernon Johns
I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.
~ Scottie Pippen
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
~ Lee Iacocca
When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
~ Eli Wallach
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.
~ Paul Arden
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
~ Andy Stanley
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
~ Edmund Burke
Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!
~ Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
~ Peter Abelard
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
~ Ralph Marston
The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.
~ Paula Fox
The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
~ Vidal Sassoon
As a revolutionary, I don't just want to sit by and say, "Oh this feels good, let's just do it." I'm going to die for what I believe in and stand for it.
~ Lecrae
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
~ Desmond Tutu
Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
~ Sivananda
But most good movies have a gun in them.
~ David Sedaris