"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."
— Mother Teresa

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
— Mark Twain

"What we do comes out of who we believe we are."
— Rob Bell (Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality And Spirituality)

"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."
— Oscar Wilde

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
— John Locke

"Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean."
— George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss)

"Act as if what you do make a difference. It does."
— William James

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
— Anita Roddick

"Actions speak louder than words"
— Mark Twain

""Action expresses priorities.""
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Each day is full of choices. It's full of decisions and actions, complications and simplicities. It is our fault if we make a bad choice, a bad decision, a bad action, revel in a complication, take for granted all the simplicities.
Someday we will understand why. But, for now, we must simply live, and pray that it all works out for us."
— Alysha Speer

"Each act of our lives can contain simplicity and precision and thus can have tremendous beauty and dignity."
— Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."
— The Dhammapada

"Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision."
— Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)

"At the day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done."
— Thomas à Kempis

"Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Farthest Shore)

""For in the Bible the face of a helpless, suffering child has a greater call on us than any institution or heavenly voice. It is the face of the suffering child or the flesh of a tortured man that the ethical demand of God is written. For this reason we can embrace Christianity as that which is lived wholly in the world, as that which finds God in the act of giving to those in need and receiving from others as we are in need. We can approach Christianity as a grounded faith, rooted firmly in the soil of the world. It is as we live fully in the world, taking total responsibility for our actions, that we demonstrate our faith.""
— Peter Rollins