We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Action Quotes
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Life is action!
Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
The sage manages affairs without action and spreads doctrines without words… By acting without action, all things will be in order.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
