The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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.

Act as if it were impossible to fail

Act as if it were impossible to fail

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of read more

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the read more

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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.