Act
Predicting rain doesn"t count. Building arks does. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in his letter to Berkshire Shareholders (2001), Quotations book 2018
Achievement
Big step
Don"t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can"t cross a chasm in two small jumps. wisdom, attributed to David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor - British Liberal politician, 1916-22 Prime Minister (1863-1945), Quotations book 2018
Study and action
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile. Axiom of the League of Women Voters" of the United States, quoted in "The National Voter" (Supplement to the October 1967 issue), Quotations book 2019
Try, try, try
Failure and invention are inseparable twins. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos - American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), in his letter to the shareholders (2016), Quotations book 2018
Act and think
Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action. Henri Bergson - French philosopher, Nobel Prize in literature 1927 (1859-1941), from his speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris (1937) Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d"action. Henri Bergson - philosophe français, prix Nobel de littérature 1927 (1859-1941), de son discours à la Conférence Descartes à Paris...
Giving back
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein - German physicist, Nobel prize in Physics 1921 (1879-1955), from his essay "The Worls As I See It", published in "Forum and Century" N° 84...
Begin
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.. attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German poet (1749-1832)
Hvem du er
Det er det du gjør og ikke det du sier som viser hvem du egentlig er. Norsk ordtak - Sitater bok 2017 It"s what you do, not what you say, that shows who you really are. Norwegian proverb - Quotations book 2017
Building dreams
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. motivational dictum
Courage to act
Courage is the beginning of an action, but chance is the master of the end. τόλμα πρήξιος ἀρχή, τύχη δὲ τέλεος κυρίη. Democritus from Abdera - Greek philosopher (c. 460 -371 B.C.), fragment 269
Wanted
GOD, give us men! A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; men whom the lust of office does not kill; men whom the spoils of office can not buy; men who possess opinions and a will; men who have honor; men who will not lie; men who can stand before a demagogue and damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the...
Foresight
Build a well while you are strong, not while you are thirsty. 毋临渴而掘井。 Chinese proverb - Quotations book 2016
Trying and failing
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who has never failed is he who has never tried. Og Mandino - born Augustine Mandino II, American writer (1923-1996), from "The Greatest Salesman in the World" (1968), Quotations book 2016
Change
Change before you have to. JJack Welch - born John Francis Welch jr., legendary American manager: General Electric (1935-2020), Fortune 1999: Manager of the Century
Create new
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller - Americanr architect, visionary, designer and philosopher (1895-1983)
Felicità
Ricordate che felici rende solo il buon operar. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco - sacerdote cattolici e pedagogo italiano (1815-1888), de "Memorie biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco" (Benda 12, 1931)
Try
What you cannot plan out, you have to try out. Tom Peters – American author and consultant (b. 1942), Quotations boook 2015 see tompeters.com
Vocation
There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do. attributed to Plato - Greek philosopher (c. 428-348 B.C.), Quotations book 2015
Responsibility
Do good to all, but leave everyone with his own responsibility. Pope John XXIII - Born Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli, 1958-63 Holy Father, also called "Council pope" or because of his humility and populism "il Papa buono" - "the good Pope" (1881-1963), from a letter to his brother Severo (1949), Quotations book 2015