"I know how to do anything--I'm a mom." ~Roseanne Barr~

"God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." ~Mary Kay Ash~

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything that you gave me.'" ~Erma Bombeck~

"Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius." ~Charlotte Bronte~

"If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents." ~Hortense Canady~

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." ~Mary Lou Cook~

"It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. It is not enough to be very good if you have the ability to eb very great." ~Alberta Lee Cox, grade 8~

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God." ~Mary Daly~

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." ~Anna Freud~

"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest." ~Gail Hamilton~

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do." ~Helen Keller~

"What really matters is what you do with what you have." ~Shirley Lord~

"Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned--not to see what is not." ~Maria Mitchell~

"Ignorance is no excuse--it's the real thing." ~Irene Peter~

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give." ~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Action Quotes

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform." ~Susan B. Anthony~

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." ~Hannah Arendt~

"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people." ~Jan Ashford~

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" ~ Jane Austen~

"I'm going to have to ride the fence awhile until I find where the gates are." Eva Bowring~

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spirituality. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." ~Rita Mae Brown~

"If you really want something you can figure out how ot make it happen." ~Cher~

"Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented both sides. But most of what we're living through now has multiple sides, and those sides, if you take the extreme oppositional views, have to be brought together for people to make a decision about how to act on the information." ~Hillary Rodham Clinton~

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." ~Marie Curie~

"I think even lying on my bed I can still do something." ~attributed to Dorothea Dix~

"You really can change the world if you care enough." ~Marion Wright Edelman~

"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." ~George Eliot~

"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt." ~SuEllen Fried~

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman~

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." ~Erica Jong~

"Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small." ~Irene Kassorla~

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings." ~Helen Keller~

"Procrastination gives you something to look forward to." ~Joan Konner~

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." ~Lucy Larcom~

"Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential." ~Frances Lear~

"Let us never confuse stability for stagnation." ~Mary Jean LeTendre~

"Love is a verb." ~Clare Boothe Luce~

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today." ~Mignon McLaughlin~

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." ~Katherine Mansfield~

"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life." ~Queen Margreth II of Denmark~

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that has ever has." ~Margaret Mead~

"Just go out there and do what you've got to do." ~Martina Navratilova~

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." ~Anais Nin~

"Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where just so you go! go! go! Remember at the first opportunity--go!" ~Jeannette Rankin~

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression." ~Dodie Smith

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