Prompt Action Quotes

[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.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

You have to fix something when it first appears.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Act now. Act with speed.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

Never, never, never postpone following a prompting.

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.

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.

I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

I make decisions quickly.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.