Action Oriented Quotes

From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Successful people are action oriented.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

Leadership is not what you said on the Senate floor. It’s not what you’ve said. It’s what you’ve done.

I don't think nothing. I just do my work.

All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.