We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

The shortest answer is doing.

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

Well done is better than well said.

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”