Quotes about Action

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do?

A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

That's the key word—engage. Choose to engage and your weary warrior wakes up.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

If not us, who? If not now, when?

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

If there is a lesson from the lives of the men John Kennedy depicts in this book, if there is a lesson from his life and from his death, it is that in this world of ours none of us can afford to be lookers-on, the critics standing on the sidelines.

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more.

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.