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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.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

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