“If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.”
“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
“No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
“We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
“Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.”
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
“You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.”
“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”
“In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”
“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.”
“But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.”
“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.”
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
“Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
“If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.”
“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”
“So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”