256 quotes found
“Now go take on the day!”
“You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.”
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.”
“Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.”
“I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.”
“Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.”
“Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.”
“One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.”
“If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake them up.”
“Men expect too much do too little.”
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
“Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.”
“Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.”
“Above all try something.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.”
“Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.”
“Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.”
