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Words are plentiful,
but deeds are precious.
Lech Walesa
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Thinking about swimming
isn’t much like
actually getting in the
water. Actually getting in
the
water can take your breath away. The defense force inside us
wants us to be cautious, to stay
away from anything as intense
as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically
avoids
anything
resembling danger. But
it’s often wrong. Anything
worth doing is worth doing too soon.
Barbara Sher
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Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail
away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade wind in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
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The
three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor
intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate,
to
include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."
Sydney J. Harris
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If everybody did just one thing.
Just one thing. Not even
a great thing.
Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing,
just one act of
living kindness. The effect
of each caring action,
no matter how seemingly small, brings blessings
into the lives
of others. There
may be no greater or more important thing
that we can do at this instant.
Donald Altman
Success
often comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to
the timid who are afraid of the consequences.
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Note the power of
thoughts without action. In the physical world,
seemingly little. Note the power of the physical action alone.
So
powerful as to be almost effortless. Most people don't have to even
work to fold over the corner of a page. It's easy. Without the
power
of thought to guide it, however, human physical energy is like a
mindless animal set loose in a nuclear power plant. One can only
hope (or pray, as you prefer) the resultant damage is contained
within the plant, and that certain buttons in the control room are not
randomly pushed. When thought and action are combined, the
results are powerful--among the most powerful things on earth.
The combination of successful communication--the sharing of
thoughts--and physical action can, literally, move mountains.
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If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.
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Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a
refuge,
is neither safe nor comfortable.
Madeleine Kunin |
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I don’t waste time thinking, “Am I doing it
right?”
I say, “Am I doing it?”
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What we do to survive is often different from
what we may need to do in order to live.
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We don’t always know whose lives
we touched and
made better
for
having cared, because actions can
sometimes have unseen
ramifications.
What’s
important is that you
do care and you do act.
Charlotte Lunsford
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Words are mere bubbles of water,
but deeds are
drops of gold.
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You
can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the
corn.
But you cannot make it rain. You cannot prevent an early frost.
You cannot determine exactly what will happen in your life. The rain
may
or may not fall, but one thing is certain: you will get a harvest
only
if you planted something in the field.
It's important to do everything in our power to ensure our success,
but we also need to let the universe take its course.
Melody
Beattie
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Everything
you do makes a difference. Everything you don't do makes a
difference, too. If you wave your arm you create a
breeze. What does that do to the weather? The effect
may be small, but there is an effect, and combined with other
small effects it can have a significant effect. Every act we
perform has some effect on the choices other people make and the
world we live in. We are part of the great puzzle of life,
and without us it is not complete. . . .
Every act has its
effect. To do nothing is an act that stems from feelings of
hopelessness and despair. Please remember, no matter how
dark the future looks, you can make a difference. When you
live the true life you were sent here to live, the difference you
make will enhance life rather than destroy it. Do not spend
time worrying how big a difference you make. Anything that
enhances a life makes a difference; helping one individual recover
from a broken heart; easing one person's pain; helping one ugly
duckling discover his or her beauty. Keep working as long as
you live, and live as long as you can, and when you finish your
marathon they will hang a medal around your neck that says,
"You Make a Difference."
Bernie
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Your
thoughts should agree with your words, and the words
should agree
with your actions. In this world people think
one thing, say another thing,
and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
Sivananda |
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Dreaming
has its place; inspiration is invaluable; but life
is action as well as thought. They get farthest in the realm
of character-building who link up thought and action, who do
not merely dream, but act upon their noblest imaginings.
R.W. Wilde
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I think that feelings waste themselves in words; they
ought to be
distilled into actions, and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
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Perhaps
the most
valuable result
of all education is
the ability to make
yourself do the
thing you have
to do, when it ought
to be done, whether
you like it or not.
Walter
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The young
salesman approached the farmer and began to talk excitedly
about the book he was carrying. "This book will tell you
everything you
need to know about farming," the young man said
enthusiastically. "It tells
you when to sow and when to reap. It tells you about weather, what
to expect and when to expect it. This book tells you all you need to
know."
"Young man," the farmer said, "that's not the
problem. I know
everything that is in that book. My problem is doing it."
Joseph Gosse |
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If
you were going to die soon and had only one phone call
you could make, who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?
Stephen
Levine
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A
lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi
to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to
us. It is up to you.
Marian
Wright Edelman
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There is no comparison between that
which is lost
by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
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Through
the countless small actions we engage in, the loving hand
we reach out to another, the wants we let go of, the time
we give to those who most need it, we change our world.
A single step taken with mindfulness may mean the difference
between the life and death of another living creature. A single
thought of loving kindness may mean the difference between
loneliness or a sense of being loved for the person before us.
A single act of compassion may save another
person from feelings of abandonment.
Christina
Feldman
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Often
we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously
successful people and thinking they are where they are
because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look
shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily
successful people have over the average person is their
ability to get themselves to take action.
Anthony
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Sometimes you've got to jump off cliffs and grow wings
on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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Start by
doing what's necessary, then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of
Assissi
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The time when you need
to do something is when no one else
is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
Mary Frances Berry |
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to
themselves,
as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true
relish of life.
John Jay |
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Free will is not the liberty to do what one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought
to be done, even in the
very face of otherwise
overwhelming impulses.
There lies freedom indeed.
George MacDonald
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Our main business is
not to see what lies dimly at a distance,
but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle |
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In action
lies wisdom and confidence. A person who does not act
gets no further than the maxim: Life means conflict and tribulation.
But a person who acts can attain the higher wisdom and know that
life is conflict and victory. That is why God forces us to
labor. That
is why he gives us children to bring up. That is why he gives us
duties. Through action, we may reach a deeper realization.
Albert Schweitzer |
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You cannot take the mind out of the body, and you cannot take
the body out of the mind. They inter-are. Just as we find the flower
in the blooming, we find a human being in the energy of action.
If there’s no energy of action, there’s no human being.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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