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May you find great value in these Unfamiliar quotes and sayings.
We all have an instinctive fear of the unseen.
Make a conscious effort to discover
and embrace the unfamiliar -
to view the unknown not as a lurking monster,
but as a glorious adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- 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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
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
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
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
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
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.
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 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
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- 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
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
An inspiring vision - then courageous action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- 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 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
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
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