Action
Definition: The fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim. Take action on; deal with.
Number of Quotes: 48
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of
consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full
range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
Bella Abzug
This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be
done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but
Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it.
Nobody realized Everybody wouldn't do it. In the end, Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.
Financial Times
Anonymous
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
Karan Bilimoria
Once the what
is decided the how
always follows. We must not make the how
an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.
Pearl S. Buck
One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over ... your problem won't improve with age.
Warren Buffett
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them
Charlotte Bunch
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The Sphere and Duties of Woman
George Washington Burnap
Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be.
Brian Chargualaf
Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill
First things first, second things never.
Shirley Conran
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Kevin Costner
Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
No organizational action has more power for motivating employee behavior change than feedback from credible work associates.
Mark R. Edwards
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Leadership is practiced, not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
Bud Hadfield
Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of
heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing; seize the day, put no trust in the future.
Horace
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley
Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works.
Kenneth Iverson
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
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after
it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
Arthur Levitt
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not
recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
Theodore Levitt
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
George Moore
In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a
big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
Al Ries
Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are
where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that
extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.
Anthony Robbins
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favour of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of
debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Mark Rutherford
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of
my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
George Soros
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
In government it is order that matters; In action it is timeliness that matters.
Lao Tzu
I got my start by giving myself a start.
C. J. Walker
My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.
Arthur Wellesley
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving
things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
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