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Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Related topics: Wisdom
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
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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.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
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Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
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You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
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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
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
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
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
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
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IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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 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
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
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
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 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
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
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Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
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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
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
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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 hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
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
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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
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
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 great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
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
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
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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
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
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