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~ Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ~

Karen Horney

~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. ~

Robert H. Schuller

~ It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men. ~

Jean De la Bruyere

~ Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Never mistake motion for action. ~

Ernest Hemingway

~ A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. ~

Georges Bernanos

~ Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ~

Goethe

~ No on should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke. ~

Bhagavad-Gita

~ 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

~ Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ~

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769

~ Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. ~

John Andrew Holmes

~ Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807

~ This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ~

Kingman Brewster

~ To be able to look back on ones past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ~

Martial (c.40-c.102)

~ Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. ~

Edward O. Wilson

~ knowledge is hidden by selfish desire ó hidden by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction. ~

Bhagavad-Gita

~ Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~

Japanese proverb

~ Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. ~

Joel A. Barker

~ Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~

Andrew Jackson

~ You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~

George Lorimer

~ Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~

Haile Selassie

~ Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~

Walter Anderson

~ Action makes more fortune than caution. ~

Charlotte Whitton

~ Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. ~

Alfred A. Montapert

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