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Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.

People can be divided into three groups:1. Those who make things happen, 2. Those who watch things happen, 3. And those who wonder what's happening.

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

If there is no wind, row.... Latin Proverb

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. --Yiddish Proverb

Do nothing without deliberation; and when you have acted, do not regret it. Sirach 32:19

Familiarity breeds attempt. - Jane Sherwood Ace (1905-1974) "Easy Aces" Radio Show, 1928-1945; in "The Fine Art of Hypochondria by Goodman Ace," 1966.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. -- William Blake

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to find out how little remains that we cannot do.-Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. --Thomas Carlyle

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.--Miguel de Cervantes

No action is without its side effects. -- Barry Commoner (1917-____) Webster's Electronic Quotebase

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.-- Robert Conquest, _Reflections on a Ravaged Century_, 1999

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.--Oliver Cromwell

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.... --Robertson Davies, "Literature & Moral Purpose"

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.--Benjamin Disraeli

The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all... Jim Elliot (1927-1956)

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~ Friedrich Engels, quoted in: Reg Groves, The Strange Case of Victor Grayson (1975)

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.~ Anatole France

Better hazard once than always be in fear.... Thomas Fuller

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.- Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970) "War Memoirs," Vol. 2.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflections? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee. -- Goethe

There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that never other otherwise would have occurred . . .
Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can do,
Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed. - Ray Goforth

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything let me not refuse to do the something that I can do. --Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)

Never mistake motion for action.Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961)

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, 1841 - 1935

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. -- Karen Horney, Self-Analysis, 1942

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.... Elbert Hubbard

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning. Thomas Henry Huxley

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.... William James, (1842-1910)

Life is not long, and too much of it should not be spent in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. -- Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.
Samuel Johnson: Idler #4

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done. -- Thomas a Kempis

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.... Arthur Koestler

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.- - - Jack London, 1916

Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.- Malcolm X (1925-1965) "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," 1965.

Because it's there. - George Leigh Mallory's reply when asked why he wanted to climb Everest . he died on 19 June 1924 close to the summit.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, has not instinct or energy enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; men stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.... Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924)

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results . . .. --Herman Melville

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is not purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.- Thomas Merton

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.- Alan Alexander Milne, 1882 - 1956

Take to learning as far as possible, but God will not give it's rewards until you translate it into action. -- Mohammed, Hadith

grace of God, I will do.--Dwight L. Moody

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. -- Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. --Clementine Paddelford

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.-- Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew niether victory nor defeat.... Theodore Roosevelt

Things in motion sooner catch the eye
Than what not stirs.
W.S. , Troilus & Cressida, 3.3.1

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.~Sophocles, Unknown Dramas frag.288

All beginnings are hard. - Talmud

What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. Mother Teresa (1910-1997) A Gift for God, "Carriers of Christ's Love," 1975.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (1910-1997) In "Rolling Stone," by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Dec 1992.

A life which does not go into action is a failure. - Arnold J. Toynbee

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. --Mark Twain (1835-1910)