Ken Kesey Quotes

Have the courage to act instead of react.

There is a difference between bold leadership and nibbling around the edges.

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

We need to come out and assert ourselves on both sides of the court.

When I see something, I go for it.

Leaders grasp nettles.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I’m not a seat warmer. I want to get in there and make a difference.

Passivity is fatal to us.

You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, if I want to do something, I go ahead and do it. I think I learnt that from my dad.

If I want something, I go for it.

Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

I like being at the front - it's where I'm meant to be.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in the past through the experiences you've had and act with self-control - but act.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.