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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
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- 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
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- 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
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- 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
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- 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
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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.
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
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 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)
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
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
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
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
An inspiring vision - then courageous action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- 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
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
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- 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
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
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
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- 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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
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 smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
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.
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 antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
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