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A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in " and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.