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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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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
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
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- 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
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
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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 you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
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
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.
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Take Action - Now.
- 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
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
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
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.
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
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
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
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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