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~ Given elephants' ability to transform an entire landscape, action is needed, or the result will be the mass starvation of elephants and other species. ~

Rob Little

~ Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. ~

John Cage

~ Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ~

Jean Paul Richter

~ Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm. ~

Jean Paul

~ A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation. ~

Thornton Wilder

~ A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. ~

Bill Watterson

~ We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Andrew Jackson

~ Nonsense is always a distraction. ~

Jeff Gundy

~ Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. ~

Winston Churchill

~ A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. ~

Edwin Markham

~ Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit. ~

William Temple, Sr.

~ Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul. ~

Hal Elrod

~ We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention. ~

Peter Abelard

~ You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. ~

Caroline Myss

~ You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. ~

Caroline Myss

~ Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. ~

Sivananda

~ How often in this world are the actions that we condemn the result of sentiments that we love, and opinions that we admire. ~

Anna Jameson

~ Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action. ~

Carl Maria, Baron Von Weber

~ To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ~

Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

~ There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ In light of the substantial attention given this case by the Supreme Court, I believe my continued participation would create a distraction of no benefit to the parents or the best interest of the child. ~

Carl Lewis

~ Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ~

Plato

~ If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~

Hilaire Belloc

~ Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny. ~

Ming Fu Wu

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