#action

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. In general, whatever you would become, practice that very thing.

Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running.

You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for?

Act without expectation.

What would he have done under such circumstances? Obviously he would have rolled himself up in a blanket and slept.

And if we preserve this in every action, we shall enter upon the action with greater safety.

The Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.

The doer alone learneth.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

To live well is to act well; for happiness is not a possession, but an active practice.

In the arena of human life, honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

We become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate acts, and brave by performing brave acts.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit; we become what we do repeatedly.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of present potentials: which of these will be condemned to non-being and which will be actualized?

Once an action has been committed, it is saved into eternity. It cannot be altered; it belongs to the irrevocable sanctuary of the past.

The present moment is the golden seam where potentiality is woven into the tapestry of the permanent past.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new 'set' to the brain.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.