Quotes about Action

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

We are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?

The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.

The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.