Now is the time for all good men to come to.


Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.


One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.


One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker — you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.


One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.


One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action –the ability to pass directly from thought to action.


One thought driven home is better than three left on base.


Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.


Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.


Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.


Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.


Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.


Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.


Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.


People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.


People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.


People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.


Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.


Positive anything is better than negative nothing.


Real action is in silent moments.

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