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Get Inspired for Virtue 2: Courage and Emotional Strengths

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.  

- Conrad Hilton  

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.  

- T Boone Pickens  

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.  

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.  

- Georges Clemmanceau  

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.  

- David Mahoney  

I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.  

- Lucille Ball  

If you don't make dust, you eat dust.  

- Motto of Jack A MacAllister  

If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character.  

- John Viney  

Do not lie in a ditch, and say God help me; us the lawful tools He hath lent thee.  

- English Proverb  

Most people spend more time planning their grocery shopping than designing their future. The basic difference between people who live their dreams and those who only dream about how they would live, are the accuracy of their plans, their ability to generate new ideas, and their ability to take action.  

- Unknown  

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.  

- Louis L'Amour  

Eagles don't flock.  

- Ross Perot  

A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.  

- George Patton  

Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.  

- Abraham Lincoln  

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.  

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.  

- Will Rogers  

An idea is worthless unless you use it.  

- John Maxwell  

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.  

- William Jennings Bryan  

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.  

- Winston Churchill  

Success comes to the person who does today what you were thinking about doing tomorrow.  

- Unknown  

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.  

- Nolan Bushnell  

Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it.  

- Unknown  

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.  

- William Shakespeare  

Anything worth doing is worth doing now!  

- Ralph Stayer  

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.  

- Will Rogers  

If opportunity doesn't knock - build a door.  

- Milton Berle  

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.  

- Edwin Louis Cole  

Let's make a dent in the universe.  

- Steve Jobs  

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.  

- Lee J Iacocca  

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment—undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location—should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.  

- Harland Cleveland  

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