Do Something

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

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Knowing and willing are not enough

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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Gracian on Actions vs Words

"Content yourself with doing,
leave the talking to others."
-- Baltasar Gracián,
via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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What you say vs what you do

"People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do." -- Anonymous

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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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Actions speak louder

"People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do." -- Anonymous

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"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), via Dog News

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

"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet and philosopher, (1803-1882)

"Make yourself necessary to somebody." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, via email from Carla

"Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do the thing and you'll have the power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Poet and Essayist