256 quotes found
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
“With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.”
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.”
“Now go take on the day!”
“You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.”
“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.”
“The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.”
“This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.”
“Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”
“Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“The end of man is action.”
“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.”
“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
