action

121.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Garibaldi, Giuseppe

122.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

- Gaulle, Charles De

123.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Gaulle, Charles De

124.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

- Gerstner, Lou

125.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Gide, Andre

126.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

- Gielgud, John

127.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

128.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

129.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

130.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

131.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

132.

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

133.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

134.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

135.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Gracian, Baltasar

136.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

- Graffiti

137.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

- Graham, Martha

138.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

- Gramsci, Antonio

139.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

- Grant, Heber J.

140.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Green, Dennis