“The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion-makes the thought start into action, and at once plans and performs, resolves and executes.”
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
“Resolve to make every day count. Be a woman of action. Treat each day as precious.”
“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain”
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”