256 quotes found
“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.”
“How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned someth...”
“And now Lord what wait I for?”
“Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.”
“It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.”
“Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.”
“It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.”
“What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.”
“The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.”
“Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.”
“Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.”
“When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.”
“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat ...”
“How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.”
“We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.”
