"A fallow field is a sin." ~ John Steinbeck
Don't be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shook up the world. ~ Muhammad Ali
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. ~ Samuel Johnson
Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. ~ Linda Ellerbee, Take Big Bites
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything. ~ Belva Lockwood
Saying is one thing and doing is another. ~ Michel de Montaigne, Essays
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. ~ John B. Gough
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. ~ Charles Horton Cooley
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. ~ Winston Churchill
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ~ Anthony Robbins
Whatever I think is right for me to do, I do. I do the things that I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. ~ John L. Motley