Woodrow Wilson Quotes

I've never been one to enjoy just sitting around.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I believe that life is about doing.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Staying aloof is not a solution; it is a cowardly evasion.

I go where the action is.

I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

To live is not breathing it is action.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

Living is not breathing but doing.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.