“Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as "grace under pressure" — grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of ha…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“There are two kinds of idiots. Those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.’ We make a decision. Then we act on it.”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“Before I do anything I ask myself, 'Would an idiot do that?' and if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.”— Dwight Schrute, imdb.com
“I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, and words can never substitute action”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Do you realize that you jeopardized the entire company? Do you realize that your actions have destroyed everything I've been working on?”— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com
“A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one’s personal authority and always take full responsibility for one’s actions.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter what he says -- goddamn it. Look at what he does to you.”— N.M. Sanchez, instagram.com
“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“They did to others that which they would not they should do to them—that grand principle of immorality upon which rests the whole art of war.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“You must remember that when you are in love, and try never to place anyone on a pedestal. That way you spare yourself the pain of seeing them tumbling off.”— Lesley Pearse, amazon.com