Albert Einstein:
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alexander Pope:
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alfred Adler:
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred North Whitehead:
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anatole France:
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
André Gide:
The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions.
Ann Radcliffe:
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Aristotle:
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Arnold Toynbee:
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Barack Obama:
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Benjamin Disraeli:
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Franklin:
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Bishop Desmond Tutu:
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
Caroline Myss:
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
Cesar Chavez:
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
Charlotte Whitton:
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Colleen C. Barrett:
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Cyrus Curtis:
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Danilo Dolci:
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Dhammapada:
Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.
Edmund Burke:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke:
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (attributed):
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
