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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
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
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
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 you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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 would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
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
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- 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
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
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.
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
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
An inspiring vision - then courageous action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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 antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
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
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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