Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

20.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

21.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

22.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

23.

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.

Keller, Helen

24.

Action is character.

25.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

29.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

31.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

32.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

33.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

34.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

35.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

36.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

37.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

38.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

39.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

40.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

41.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

42.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

45.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

48.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

49.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

50.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth