He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Do well and right, and let the world sink.
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene.
Go, and do thou likewise.
So much to do; so little done.
Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided, act promptly.
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
What's done can't be undone.
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Out of the strain of the doing, Into the peace of the done.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Action is the antidote to despair.
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
