Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I predict future happiness for Americans
if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
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
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
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
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
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- 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
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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 man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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
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
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
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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.
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
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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