Quote Category: Action

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 and what your duty is, whatever the day calls for.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen. Even so, does inaction set the vigors of the mind?

The way to do things is to begin.”

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Do not lose courage in considering your owing imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. -Chinese proverb

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, down ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.- Frederick Douglas The harder I work the more I live.