A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

-Washington Irving

Never mistake motion for action

-Ernest Hemingway

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

-Peter Marshall

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

-Vance Havner

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

-Goethe

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-Leo Tolstoy

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

-Anonymous Author

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

-Laurence J. Peter

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

-John Dewey

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

-Calvin Coolidge

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

-Alfred Adler

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

-John Locke

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

-Learned Hand

Well done is better than well said.

-Benjamin Franklin

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

-Benjamin Disraeli

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