Act Decisively Quotes

#1. I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

P. Chidambaram

#2. Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

Kano Jigoro

#3. Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

Jenny Shipley

#4. If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan's beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively in the absence of certainty, and show that our fear of error is greater than our love of truth.

Terryl Givens

#5. From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

Louis Kronenberger

#6. The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

Chris Christie

#7. A man possessing power must act decisively, Ganoes Paran, else it would trickle away through his fingers.

Steven Erikson

#8. Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.

Mark Millar

#9. The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!

David G. Jones

#10. Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Tom Peters

#11. Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

Brian Tracy

#12. Let it be clear to all: Greatness belongs to those who have mastered the ability to focus relentlessly on their ambitions and act decisively toward them.

Brendon Burchard

#13. Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

Robin Sharma

#14. No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

Victoria Alexander

#15. In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Lesley Manville

#16. We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

Joyce Meyer

#17. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Charles Du Bos

#18. Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

Edward Brooke

#19. Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

Bob Taft

#20. In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

Morris Gleitzman