It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

"Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action."

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind, till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

One starts an action Simply because one must do something.

Begin and proceed on a settled and not-to-be-shaken conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.