“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
Leonardo da Vinci (verified)
“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price—and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price—is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt shorter: Paralysis.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart (verified)“This is a time for action—not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The bird that sits, is easily shot.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Our spontaneous action is always the best.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
— Amelia Earhart (unverified)“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
— Amelia Earhart (unverified)Cause and Effect Individualism Responsibility Praise Learning