ACTION

~Acts, Not Resolutions

      I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles.

—Horace Mann

~Sail—Not Drift

      I find that the great thing is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

~Two Kinds Of Discontent

      There are two kinds of discontent in this world: the discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands.

      The first gets what it wants, and the second loses what it had. There is no cure for the first but success, and there is no cure at all for the second.

—Elbert Hubbard

~When We No Longer Care

      Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that nineteen of twenty-one civilizations have died from within and not by conquest from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and in the dark when no one was aware.”

~Epigram On Action

      You don’t have to lie awake nights to succeed. Just stay awake days.

—Healthways   

~Epigram On Action

      The size of a dog in a fight is not as significant as the size of the fight in the dog.

—Rains Country Leader

~Famous People And Time

      Queen Charlotte said, “I am always quarelling with time: it is so short to do something, and so long to do nothing.”

      John Bradford used to say, “I count that hour lost in which I have done no good by my pen or tongue.”

      Seneca taught that time was the only thing of which it is a virtue to be covetous.

      Dr. Cotton Mather would express his regret after the departure of a visitor that had wasted his time, “I had rather have given him a handful of money than have been kept thus long out of my study.”

      Henry Martyn won the honorable title, “The man that never wasted an hour.”

—William Foster

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