Do Something

"A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something." -- Anonymous, via a middle school classroom door

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Picasso on Success

"Action is the foundational key to all success." -- Pablo Picasso

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Gracian on Actions vs Words

"Content yourself with doing,
leave the talking to others."
-- Baltasar Gracián,
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A few sincere words can have an impact

"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life." -- Zig Ziglar, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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Robert Anthony on Self-Improvement

"You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions." -- Robert Anthony

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Be a person of action

"To become successful, you must be a person of action. Merely to ‘know’ is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do." -- Napoleon Hill

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True Leadership

"Leadership is action, not position." -- Donald H. McGannon

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Do This And Take The Whole World With You

"Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire... and the best peice of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way." -- Harry A. Overstreet

"Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." -- Plutarch, via Anecdotage.com

Planning | "To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable; sleep." -- Ursula K. LeGuin

"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." -- Charlotte Brontë

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action." — Meister Eckhart

Follow-Through| "If thou hast commenced a good action, leave it not incomplete." -- The Talmud

"Unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq is unjustified, unwarranted and illegal." -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich, 5 of Diamonds in NewsMax.com's Deck of Weasels

Action | "You will recall what Senator Dirksen said about the rocking chair -- it gives you a sense of motion without any sense of danger." -- John F. Kennedy

Action | "Actions may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -- Disraeli

"You don't get peace by getting along with an enemy who wishes your extinction, and we are close to facing that very threat today with Al-Qaeda. The only way to end this is with preemption and pro-action - aggressively go after the people who have caused this to happen and kill them." -- Rush Limbaugh

"Every living creature that comes in to the world has something alloted him to perform; therefore he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing." -- Sarah Kirby Trimmer

"The end of all knowledge should be virtuous action." -- Phillip Sydney