If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

ACTION

1.    A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.  ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible

2.    A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.  ~Arabian Proverb

3.    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. ~Tony Robbins

4.    A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. ~Aristotle

5.    Action expresses priorities. ~Mohandas Gandhi

6.    Action is eloquence.  ~William Shakespeare

7.    Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ~Mohandas Gandhi

8.    Action is the antidote to despair.  ~Joan Baez

9.    Action is the foundational key to all success. ~Pablo Picasso

10.  Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.  ~Oscar Wilde

11.  Action is the real measure of intelligence. ~Napoleon Hill

12.  Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~Mark Twain

13.  Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.  ~Tehyi Hsieh

14.  After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.  ~Author Unknown

15.  All know the way; few actually walk it.  ~Bodhidharma

16.  All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.  ~William F. Halsey

17.  An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.  ~Arnold Glasow

18.  An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.  As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say.  I just watch what they do.  ~Andrew Carnegie

20.  Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.  ~Baltasar Gracian

21.  Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.  ~Italian Proverb

22.  Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. ~Will Rogers

23.  Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. ~Napoleon Hill

24.  Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ~Thomas Jefferson

25.  Don't find fault.  Find a remedy.  ~Henry Ford

26.  Effective action is always unjust. ~Maya Angelou

27.  Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ~Aristotle

28.  Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ~Theodore Roosevelt

29.  He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.  ~Benjamin Franklin

30.  He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire:  to make something.  ~Antonio Porchia

31.  Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ~Albert Einstein

32.  I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.  ~William J. Lock

33.  I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.  ~G.K. Chesterton

34.  I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.  ~John Locke

35.  I never worry about action, but only inaction. ~Winston Churchill

36.  If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through.  How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?  ~George Clason

37.  If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.  ~Henry J. Kaiser

38.  In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.  Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.  ~Brendan Francis

40.  Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.  ~Grey Livingston

41.  It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. ~Zig Ziglar

42.  Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. ~Mother Teresa

43.  Men expect too much, do too little.  ~Allen Tate

44.  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. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.  Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.  ~William R. Inge

46.  Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

47.  Never confuse motion with action. ~Benjamin Franklin

48.  Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.  ~James Baldwin

49.  Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.  ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

50.  One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness:  not to be a mere rushing on.  ~D.H. Lawrence

51.  People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.  ~Lewis Cass

52.  Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. ~William Shakespeare

53.  Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ~Mohandas Gandhi

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

55.  Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.  You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.  ~Author Unknown

56.  Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ~Theodore Roosevelt

57.  Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~Thomas Jefferson

58.  Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.  ~Peter Marshall

59.  Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? ~Tony Robbins

60.  Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.  ~Jonatan Mårtensson

61.  Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ~William Shakespeare

62.  Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

63.  Talk doesn't cook rice.  ~Chinese Proverb

64.  The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

65.  The best way out of a problem is through it.  ~Unknown

66.  The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ~Plato

67.  The first step binds one to the second.  ~French Proverb

68.  The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.  Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures.  They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.  ~Ernest Newman

69.  The most difficult thing is the decision to act – the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. ~Amelia Earhart

70.  The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ~Tony Robbins

71.  The shortest answer is doing.  ~Lord Herbert

72.  The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ~Confucius

73.  The vision must be followed by the venture.  It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.  ~Vance Havner

74.  The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ~Diane Arbus

75.  There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. ~John F. Kennedy

76.  There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

77.  There is no moment like the present.  The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards:  they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.  ~Maria Edgeworth

78.  Trust only movement.  Life happens at the level of events, not of words.  Trust movement.  ~Alfred Adler

79.  We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.  ~Harold Nicolson

80.  We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. ~Aristotle

81.  We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.  ~Calvin Coolidge

82.  We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration seldom generates action.  ~Frank Tibolt

83.  We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

84.  Well done is better than well said.  ~Benjamin Franklin

85.  What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. ~William Shakespeare

86.  What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

87.  When deeds speak, words are nothing.  ~African Proverb

88.  When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ~Confucius

89.  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. ~Tony Robbins