"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
Pablo Picasso
150 Top-Notch Quotes about Action
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
(May 24, 1878-October 5, 1969) was an American clergyman.
"The trick is, when there's nothing to do, do nothing."
Warren Edward Buffett
(born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world. Often called the "legendary investor Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is
consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people, he was ranked as the world's second wealthiest person in 2009 and is currently the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2010.
"If you don't understand it, don't do it."
Warren Edward Buffett
(born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world. Often called the "legendary investor Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is
consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people, he was ranked as the world's second wealthiest person in 2009 and is currently the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2010.
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
Herbert Spencer
(27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
Mark Twain (born:Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
George Smith Patton, Jr. (also George Smith Patton III)
(November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during
World War II. He was also well-known for his controversial outspokenness.
"It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what is required."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
(30 November 1874– 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership
of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940-1945 and 1951-1955). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Perfection doesn't exist..only good attempts."
Charles Caleb Colton
(1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
