256 quotes found
“Act-act in the living present!”
“Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.”
“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
“Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.”
“And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.”
“Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.”
“The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.”
“Above all try something.”
“Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.”
“Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”
“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.”
“The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.”
“For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“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.”
“All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.”
“A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”
“Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.”
“Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
