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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale 
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
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
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
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
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
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.
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
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- 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
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 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
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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
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
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- 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 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 good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
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.
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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