Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Never confuse motion with action.
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
No one will do it for you.
No rules for success will work if you don't.
No sooner said than done — so acts your man of worth.
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.
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