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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Act-act in the living present!

This one makes a net this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

To choose is also to begin.

When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.