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Quotes About Action

The gap between intentions and actions is character.
~ Orrin Woodward
Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.
~ Orrin Woodward
Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.
~ Orrin Woodward
The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!
~ Orrin Woodward
Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.
~ Orrin Woodward
It's easy to judge, but much more difficult to serve.
~ Orrin Woodward
Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it.
~ Orrin Woodward
To lead from the front you must get off your behind.
~ Orrin Woodward
The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.
~ Orrin Woodward
You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.
~ Orrin Woodward
People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.
~ Orrin Woodward
Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.
~ Orrin Woodward
You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.
~ Orrin Woodward
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
~ Orrin Woodward
Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
~ Orrin Woodward
True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
~ Orrin Woodward
Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.
~ Orrin Woodward
Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
~ Orrin Woodward
You cannot be upset about results you don't have from work you didn't do.
~ Orrin Woodward
Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
~ Orrin Woodward
You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.
~ Orson Welles
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
~ Os Guinness
René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"
~ Os Guinness
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.
~ Os Guinness