If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds.
Saint Basil
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverbs
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian proverbs
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill
Well done is better than well said.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
