Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your read more

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action read more

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Never confuse movement with action.

Never confuse movement with action.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of read more

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
[Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro
viribus.]