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Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
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The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
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
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.
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- 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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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 future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
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