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Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Related topics: Motivational
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- 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
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- 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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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 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
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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