All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.
Now, go take on the day!
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.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
The end of man is action.
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.
The only menace is inertia.
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.
