I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.