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"If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
-- Thomas A. Edison

"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."
-- Anthony Robbins

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-- Helen Keller

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
-- Norman Vincent Peale {1898-1993 Pastor, Speaker & Author}

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, pastor, speaker and author

"Action is the antidote to despair."
-- Joan Baez, singer and songwriter

"Action makes more fortune than caution."
-- Luc De Clapiers (1715-1747), French moralist, essayist and writer

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
-- William James, psychologist and philosopher

"Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire...and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way." - Harry A. Overstreet, Influencing Human Behavior (1925)

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
-- Edwin Chapin (1814-1880) Universalist minister, author, lecturer, and social reformer

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."-- James Levin

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) British Essayist

"Never confuse movement with action."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."
-- Tyron Edwards (1809-1894)

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never quit."
-- Conrad Hilton (Hotel Executive)

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
-- Joel Barker (Author)

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
-- Herman Melville

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting."
-- Carlos Casteneda

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do--do it and let it speak for itself."
--Martin Vanbee

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
-- Emily P. Bissell, creator of the original Christmas Seals