Quotes About Action

Find a way. It is that simple.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

Never trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm.

For this is action, this not being sure, this carelessPreparing, sowing the seeds crooked in the furrow,Making ready to forget, and always coming backTo the mooring of starting out, that day so long ago.

To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

When you see me running, its already too late." Harry Hubbard

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

Leadership presence is the reflection of the leader's inner self. It should be the real deal. Presence, however, is not simply a sense of being; it is a determination of action. Leadership presence, as I wrote in 12 Steps to Power Presence, is a form of "earned authority." Authority comes from the title of a leader, but it is earned by example.

I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.

The gap between what publicity actually offers and the future it promises, corresponds with the gap between what the spectator-buyer feels himself to be and what he would like to be. The two gaps become one; and instead of the single gap being bridged by action or lived experience, it is filled with glamorous daydreams.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

The button waiting to be pushed, the whir of action, the neat reproduction dropping into the tray—all this adds up to a heady experience, and the neophyte operator of a copier feels an impulse to copy all the papers in his pockets. And once one has used a copier, one tends to be hooked.

action, it would result in rigidity and certainty of interpretation, and would make it much easier for tax practitioners like me to manipulate the law to their clients' advantage. The

Usually it is not until there is evidence that the employee [who has changed jobs] has not lived up to his contract, expressed or implied, to maintain secrecy, that the former employer can take action. In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite. A dog cannot be presumed to be vicious until he has proved that he is by biting someone. As with a dog, the former employer may have to wait for a former employee to commit some overt act before he can act.

London gold dealers, in describing the day's action [during the 1968 gold crisis], used the un-British words "stampede," "catastrophe," and "nightmare.

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

My great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way, and rowing another.

One does not become an outcast by birth, one does not become a Brahmin by birth. It is by deed that one becomes an outcast, it is by deed that one becomes a Brahmin." The

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The secret of happiness is something to do

Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.