“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.”
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
“The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.”
“We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.”
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”
“Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.”
“'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.”
“It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
“In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.”
“Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.”
“It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”
“Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”
“Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.”
“It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''”
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
“When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''”
“He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.”
“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”
“Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
“If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.”