Thomas Huxley Quotes

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.

You must ... communicate your passion to others and act accordingly, without hesitation when your decision is once made.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Always be prudent but never hesitant.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

It's never the plan to be tentative.

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

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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

We'll do it, we'll do it.

When I decide to do something, I do it.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

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

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

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

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I will not wait upon events.