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Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Karen Horney

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above.

Julia Fletcher Carney 1823

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,/ Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot (Mary Evans) 1819

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

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Fros

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Edison

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Thomas Carlyle

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

Steve Pavlina

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

Anon xxxx

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

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