Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
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
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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.
Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- 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
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
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- 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 risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
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
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
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