"Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall"

"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Action conquers fear"

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"