Goethe on "action"

• “Doubt can only be removed by action.”
• “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
• "One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”
• “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
• “Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine”
• “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe