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--Robert F. Kennedy
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.... You must act as you breathe.
--Georges Clemenceau
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
--Anatole France
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
--Johann von Schiller
Adversity is the first path to truth.
--Lord Byron
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
--Helen Keller
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
--James Russell Lowell
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-- Aristotle
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.
-- W. J. Slim
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
-- William P. Merrill
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
-- Henry Ward Peecher
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
-- Tryon Edwards
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
-- David Sarnoff
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping--stone in the pathway of the strong.
-- Thomas Carlyle
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
-- James Allen
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path.
-- Ronald Mabbitt