"The future depends on what you do today."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Yes We Can!"
— Barack Obama

""I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.""
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."
— Susan Sontag

"Action expresses priorities."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Never confuse Motion with Action."
— Benjamin Franklin (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin)

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. "
— William James

"A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

""Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
— Frank Herbert

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
— John Stuart Mill

"We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them."
— Abigail Adams

"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . ."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windemere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome)

""Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.""
— R.A. Salvatore (The Halfling's Gem)

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
— John Wooden

"A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening..."
— Jeanne DuPrau (The Diamond of Darkhold (The Ember Series, #4))

"Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance."
— Margaret Atwood (Der blinde Mörder / The Blind Assassin)

"The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
— Oscar Wilde

"The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off."
— Anderson Cooper

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
— James Russell Lowell

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

""If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today."
"
— James Andrews

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

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen"
— Horace Mann

""... too much brooding, not enough doing.""
— Timothy Findley

"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."
— Laozi

"The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?"
— Robert Cormier (After the First Death)

"You only truly believe that which moves you to action."
— Douglas Cheney

"Giving of any kind... taking an action... begins the process of change, and moves us to remember that we are part of a much greater universe. "
— Mbali Creazzo

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference.
"
— Nolan Bushnell

"To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?" "
— Charles Fuller

"You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."
— Florence Nightingale

"Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person."
— Martin Luther

"Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath."
— Gay Hendricks (Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True)

"We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift."
— Al Gore

"Do the thing and you will have the power."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time."
— Wendell Berry

"Never act on impulse. Plan first. Think it through. Then act."
— Luc Saint-Cyr

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
— Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825): German Novelist

""A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...""
— Jeanne DuPrau (The Diamond of Darkhold (The Ember Series, #4))