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
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
There are two kinds of people who never amount too much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Danilo Dolci
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
Edward Ericson
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
Wilfred A. Peterson
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Charles De Gaulle
It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.
Jean De la Bruyere
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
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
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.n
Helen Keller
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