We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For ours is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

We shall make mistakes; and I venture to affirm that it is better to make every possible mistake, and to correct them all, than to be paralyzed by the fear of making any.

The mind itself is the seat of action. We do not act because we think, but we think because the possibility of action is always before us.