Quotes About Action

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

One must be something to be able to do something.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Create, artist! Do not talk!

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

If you would create something, you must be something.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

An unused life is an early death.