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

20.

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

21.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

22.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

24.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

27.

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

28.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

29.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

31.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

35.

Do it now. Then it's done.

36.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

38.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

39.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

40.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

42.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

43.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

44.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

45.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

46.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

47.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.