If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

If you want to get along, go along.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

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