Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Well done is better than well said.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it.
Never tell anyone what you're going to do till you've done it.
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Say hello to my little friend!
No more half measures.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
In the long run we are all dead.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Virtue is not simply theoretical knowledge, but it is practical application as well.
Human action is purposeful behavior.
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
The man who fails to carry out his plans because of his doubts about them, has already failed.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
There is no reality except in action.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.
