
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
- Topic: Action, Time, Work
- Location: Canyonlands National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.
› Carl Sandburg
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
› James Allen
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
› Buddha
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
› John F. Kennedy
Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
› John Stuart Mill
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
› Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
› Martha Graham
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
› Maya Angelou
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
› Dale Carnegie
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
› John Dryden
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
› Buddha
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
› Lewis Carroll
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
› Peter Drucker
Now is the accepted time.
› 1 Corinthians 6:2
Time makes more converts than reason.
› Thomas Paine
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
› Malcolm S. Forbes
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
› Nelson Mandela
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
› John Locke
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
› Helen Keller
