Mel Brooks Quotes

Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

You must ... communicate your passion to others and act accordingly, without hesitation when your decision is once made.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

In politics, guts is all.

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

I will not wait upon events.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

Passivity is fatal to us.