Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ~ Thomas Carlyle

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Teresa

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. ~ Horace Mann

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ~

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. ~ William Shakespeare