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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
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
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An inspiring vision - then courageous action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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