Georges Clemenceau Quotes

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Stop stewing and start doing!

The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Reading is good, action is better.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.