It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth read more

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.]

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

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.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget read more

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.