“One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.”
“Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.”
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
“A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.”
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.”
“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.”
“By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.”
“All human activities are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed to failure.”
“The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.”
“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
“Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.”
“Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.”
“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.”
“Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.”
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.”
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
“We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.”
“All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
“Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.”
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”
“Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.”
“All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.”
“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.”