"When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on aid and assistance   

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

Perot, H. Ross on action
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

Smiles, Samuel on adversity
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"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

Buckham, James on adversity
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"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Hemans, Felicia D. on affliction
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"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

Bunuel, Luis on age and aging   

"For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do."

Banks, George Linnaeus on aid and assistance
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"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Acton, Lord on action
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

Batt, Al on action
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Drucker, Peter F. on action
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"The deed is everything, the glory is naught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."

Iacocca, Lee on action
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on achievement
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on action
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"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more."

Syrus, Publilius on honor
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on honor   

"A person dishonored is worst than dead."

Cervantes, Miguel De on honor
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"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."

Boileau, Nicholas on honor
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"For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death."

Bhagavad Gita on honor
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"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."

Addison, Joseph on honor
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"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

Orwell, George on contradiction
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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

Billings, Josh on silence
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on silence
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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

Gaulle, Charles De on silence
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"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."

Huxley, Aldous on silence