Get acting, do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action ….

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)

(Attributed)

To the Rough Riders, on their mustering out in 1908. In Eugene Thwing, The Life and Meaning of Theodore Roosevelt, ch. 5 "Rough Riders and Spaniards" (1919). Full text.