Jimmy Eat World

"Are you going to live your life standing in the back, looking around?
Are you going to waste your time?
You've got to make a move or you'll miss out."

- Jimmy Eat World, 'A Praise Chorus'

Friedrich Engels

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

- Friedrich Engels, philosopher, author, economist

Anatole France

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

- Maya Angelou, poet and author

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Sydney J. Harris

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

- Sydney J. Harris, journalist

Tryon Edwards

"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

Voltaire

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Thomas Jefferson

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Anatole France

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Brian Tracy

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

- Brian Tracy, self-help author and motivational speaker

William James

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James, philosopher and psychologist

Abraham Lincoln

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men"

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

William Shakespeare

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

Joel Barker

“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.”

- Joel Barker, scholar and futurist