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Action may not always bring happiness;
by Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Related topics: Motivational

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli

 

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

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 it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- 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

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

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

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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 hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- 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

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.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

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

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

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 risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

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 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

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 is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

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 smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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