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Motivational Ancestors Quotes

May these quotes about Ancestors inspire and motivate you.

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional

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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

The sacred altar of all existence
is where we meet our ancestors
and our descendants yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Expectation (demand) is always a cause of suffering.
Rather than "expecting" to be repaid
when we "loan" something to someone,
consider the "loans" we make to be forward payments
for the "loans" we received from
our ancestors, nurturers and others.
Request that any "loan" that we make be repaid FORWARD,
when the recipient is able,
and then completely forget about the "loan."
It is no longer our business if, when, or how
the "loan" is repaid - or is not repaid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain

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

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- 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

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

An inspiring vision - then courageous action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous

CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

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

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- 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

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

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

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.

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

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez


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