Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The path to success is to take massive, determined 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.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary read more

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as read more

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

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

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