“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”