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If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Action - Commitment -

My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Action - Long Term Investing - Investing -

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.
Mukesh Ambani - Action - Inspirational - Business Growth

I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)
Erica Baxter - Now - Action - Procrastination

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Tim Blixseth - Ideas - Great - Action

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
Bono - Lies - Truth - Action

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.
Bono - Action - America - Ideas - Responsible - Power - Encouragement

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
Bono - Action - God - Inspirational

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
Bono - Action - Encouragement - Now - Goals

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bono - Action - Encouragement - World

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Jack Canfield - Improvement - Action - Dreams - Mistakes

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens, but it's not a kind of thing where you just sort of sit back and wait.
Steve Case - Belief - Ambition - Action

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun.
Walter Chrysler - Inspirational - Fun - Ambition - Action

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
Chin-Ning Chu - Action - Motivation - Fear

My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Life - Planning - Action - Busy

If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.
Paul Clitheroe - Action - Opportunity

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions..
Paulo Coelho - Mistakes - Opportunity - Action -

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
Clive Davis - Opportunity - Action

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
Michael Dell - Company - Success - Work - Action

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney - Action - Motivational

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli - Action - Happiness

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
Peter Drucker - Work - Philanthropy - Action -

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Action - Fear - Life

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Learning - Life - Action -

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.
Henry Ford - Action - Time

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin - Action - Life -

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi - Winning - Achievement - Action

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it. (talking about the environamental crisis)
Al Gore - Environmental - Crisis - Solutions - Action

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
Philip Green - Happiness - Action - Work

You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Andrew Grove - Failure - Action - Confidence

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton - Success - Quitting - Mistakes - Action

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
Carl Icahn - Business - Life - Mistakes - Action

You can do so much in 10 minutes' time .Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good.. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
Ingvar Kamprad - Time - Action - Life

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Action

And so, my fellow Americans.. Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy - Action - America - Questions - Encouragement

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
David Letterman - Action - Focus

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch - Action - Success

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.
John McCain - Environmental - Economy - Action

An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment.
John McCain - Action - Inspiration - Politician - Courage

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain - Courage - Action - Fear

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman - Success - Fear - Action

I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything.. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman - Action - Time - Priorities

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.
Michael Moore - Influential - Decisions - Encouragement - President - Gratitude - Action

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
Rupert Murdoch - Climate Change - Risk - Action

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time. But we must do this quickly.. the climate will not wait for us.
Rupert Murdoch - Climate Change - Responsibility - Action - Renewable Energy

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
Greg Norman - Action - Encouragement - Work

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.
Barack Obama - Environmental - Global Warming - Action - Climate Change - World - Freedom - America - Failure

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.
Kerry Packer - Action - Opportunity - Technology -

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot - Mistakes - Action -

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
Azim Premji - Truth - Decisions - Actions - Challenges

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
Bob Proctor - Change - Greatness - Action

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Anthony Robbins - Decisions - Action

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.
Sakip Sabanci - Action - Commitment - Ambition

Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Environmental - Global Warming - Action

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Action - Strength - Achievement - Life - Ambition

What a man believes may be ascertained not from his creed, but from assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw - Belief - Action

Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.
Jose Silva - Action - Decisions - Success

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart - Life - Action

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy - Action - Luck - Risk

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.
Donald Trump - Confidence - Skills - Action

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
Ted Turner - Happiness - Action

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu - Opportunity - Action -

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch - Action - Learning - Competition

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey - Decisions - Power - Action -

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
Oprah Winfrey - Decisions - Learning - Action -

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.
Gordon Wu - Belief - Action

If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.
Zig Ziglar - Planning - Action

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.
Zig Ziglar - Action - Power - Focus - Achievement

If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar - Planning - Action - Procrastination

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.
Zig Ziglar - Motivational - Action - Encouragement

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