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ACTION: Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. (Karen Horney, German psychoanalyst, 1885-1952)
ACTION: Better to light a candle than to sit and curse the dark. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)
ACTION: The question is whether you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett, U.S Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)
ACTION: The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
ACTION: An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels, German Marxist philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman, 1820-1895)
ACTION: We will either find a way, or make one. (Hannibal, Carthaginian general, considered one of the greatest military commanders in history, 247-183 BCE)
ACTION: Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. (Italian proverb)
ACTION: Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
ACTION: The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. (Unknown source)
ACTION: Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal. (Unknown source)