Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Albert Einstein:
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
André Gide:
The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions.
Aristotle:
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Benjamin Disraeli:
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Colleen C. Barrett:
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Edmund Burke:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Harold Nicolson:
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC:
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Hugh Prather:
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
John Andrew Holmes:
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
Konosuke Matsushita:
No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.
Pearl Bailey:
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Walter Linn:
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Edward Everett Hale:
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
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
