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- I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
- Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done. - Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
- I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
- What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
- Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), letter to her brother, 1894
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
- You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
- We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
- It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre, 1847
- I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
- Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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