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Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation...It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Francis Kennedy, speech a
Let your performance do the thinking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Mary Caroline Richards
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
Elmer G. Letterman
Don't think, just do.
Reiko Horton
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Try and trust will move mountains.
Proverb
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
Anne Byrhhe
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Honore de Balzac
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous.
Giosu
Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
Ralph Ransom
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.
Viola Spolin
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
Dhammapada
The first step is the hardest.
Marie De VichyChamrond
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
John H. Holcomb
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
