Action Quotes - Page 19

• We who in 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.

  Direct Action, Alive, Surface

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Life, Choices, Chance

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 21, 2015

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• Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Change, Hard Times, Loving Life

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• If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Inspiring, Compassion

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Our Words, Our Actions

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• But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look

  Deb Caletti

  Loyalty, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

  Secret Love, Done, Getting High

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Buddhist, Creativity, Buddhism

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Persons, Knows

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

  Mark Twain

  Everyday, Want, Golden Rule

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Clarity comes from action, not thought.

  Marie Forleo

  Clarity

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• The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Professors

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Beauty

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Future, Cherish Every Moment

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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  Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

  Cornel West

  Hope, Courage, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2010

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

  Tamora Pierce

  Change, Novelists, Way

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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