Decisive Action Quotes

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Determination, Military, Persistence

  Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria

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• Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

  Dan Miller

  Way, Action, Indecisive

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• Direct threats require decisive action.

  Dick Cheney

  Action, Threat, Direct

  2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Leadership, Unique, Focus

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• When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

  George W. Bush

  Fire, Camels, Tents

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  Aristotle

  War, Mean, Men

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• Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Risk, Ignorant

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• We've taken decisive action to keep radical islamic terrorists out of our country, though parts of our necessary and constitutional actions were blocked by our judges, in my opinion, incorrect, and unsafe ruling.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Islamic

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Action, Ready, Happens

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.140, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Literature, Action

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• I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

  Graham Nash

  Country, Issues, People

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• In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Nice, Good Friend

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• Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Nsa, People

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

  Austin Ligon

  Administration, Action, Chrysler

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• Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.

  Ralph Neas

  Taken, Law, Phones

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• Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Climate, Too Late

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• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Future, Mean

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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• No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive action in response to the voters'€™ demands. Obamacare has escalated costs, disrupted coverage, and introduced bad incentives throughout our healthcare system. Congress must repeal Obamacare and send the president a replacement package of reforms that protects freedom and focuses on the real problem with American healthcare -€” affordability.

  Bobby Jindal

  Real, Obamacare, Important

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• The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

  H. G. Wells

  Government, Genius, Action

  H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.41, Powell Publications, LLC

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• When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Talking, Doubt

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Long, Bills

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