Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

- Stephen Covey

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

?I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- ?Frances Willard

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Napoleon Hill

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. (The Wizard of Oz)

- Frank L. Baum

Freedom lies in bold action.

- Robert Frost

?Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

- Booker T. Washington

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

- Pauline Kael

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

- Vaclav Havel

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

- Nathaniel Branden



Action is eloquence.

- William Shakespeare



Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle



Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos



Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham



Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde



Actions lie louder than words.

- Carolyn Wells



Live truth instead of expressing it.

- Elbert Hubbard



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

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from the meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world that they want to live in.

- Marshall Rosenberg



Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.

- Sharon Salzberg



Action expresses priorities.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill



Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti



It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha



A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

- Rita Mae Brown



Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

- Michael Korda



Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

- Sydney J. Harris



We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

- Sam Nunn



All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant



Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu



Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.

- Mike Todd



The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael



Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh



A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

- Vincent van Gogh



It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus



Push on -- keep moving.

- Thomas Merton



Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln