Getting Quotes

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake them up.

Men expect too much do too little.

Act-act in the living present!

Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

Above all try something.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Talking is easy action difficult.

One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

When I talked no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.

He who hesitates is last.

No age or time of life no position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.

And now Lord what wait I for?