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You can’t get rich sitting on the bench.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

How then find the courage for action?… By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Francis Quarles

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Performance releases pressure.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Edgar Watson Howe

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results … not great results but enough to encourage me.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts … all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.