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Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb) 
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- 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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
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.
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
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
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- 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
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
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
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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