Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

In politics, guts is all.

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

I will not wait upon events.

Wise in Policy Valiant in Action Decisive in Leadership You Gave a Battered World New Hope

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.

Always be prudent but never hesitant.

You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

Courage breeds leadership.