Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

18.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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

21.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

22.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

23.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

25.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

27.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

28.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

30.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

33.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

35.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

36.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

38.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

40.

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

41.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

42.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

44.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

46.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

47.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

50.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon