256 quotes found
“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”
“When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.”
“Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will s...”
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
“Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.”
“Performance releases pressure.”
“Wishing does not make a poor man rich.”
“You can't get rich sitting on the bench.”
“Action makes more fortunes than caution.”
“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.”
“How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.”
“Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.”
“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.”
“One starts an action simply because one must do something.”
“We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.”
“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!”
“To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.”
“If you want to do something do it!”
“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
“In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.”
