Men expect too much, do too little.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Act-act in the living present!
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Above all, try something.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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.
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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.