Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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
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
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- 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
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.
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
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
Take Action - Now.
- 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
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
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
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
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