Favorite Quotations ~  Action, 3 Sign Language

"Never confuse movement with action." ~ Ernest Hemingway, Papa Hemingway: A Memoir, 1966

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. ~ Carl Sandburg

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~ H. Ross Perot

Well done is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1737

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, NY Times Magazine, 1978

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no. ~ Ann Beatts

The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone--a child who falls down a well--hundreds of people rush to help, and labor and equipment are volunteered without any thought of who's going to pay for it. This is a basic feeling in Americans. They don't stand back in such a circumstance and ask what the government's going to do about it. ~ Ronald Reagan

Get action. Do things; be sane, don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback, 1981

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning--sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman

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