We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. So we have to know how to act.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.
Concerned alone with the upholding of the world, you should act. Whatever the best man does, others do that also. The world follows the standard he sets for himself.
