“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
“Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.”
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
“The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.”
“Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.”
“The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.”
“Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.”
“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”
“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
“Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
“Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.”
“It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”
“For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”