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SINCE ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, GET BUSY… "The world cares very little about what a man or women
knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts." "The great man is sparing in words and prodigal in deeds." Confucius "Never mistake motion for action." Ernest Hemingway "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt | "If you want a thing, go. If not, send." Ben Franklin "I leave this rule for others when I’m dead. Be always sure you’re right … then go ahead." Davy Crockett Do It Now . . . If Not Sooner "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try." Beverly Sills "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." Calvin Coolidge "All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success." Dorothea Brande "Begin to weave and God will provide the thread." German Proverb "He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done, and he did it." Edgar A. Guest And Finally . . . "The most important history is the history we make today." Henry Ford "When all is said and done, more is said than done." Lou Holtz "Action is the antidote to despair." Joan Baez "For purposes of action nothing is more useful than
narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."  |
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the General who led his troops to victory against the British at the Battle of
New Orleans, he become the most notable military hero in the War of 1812.
Jackson once observed, "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for
action arrives, stop thinking and go in." He was right, as the
following quotations clearly demonstrate.