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Welcome to these Lurking Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
We all have an instinctive fear of the unseen.
Make a conscious effort to discover
and embrace the unfamiliar -
to view the unknown not as a lurking monster,
but as a glorious adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- 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
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
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
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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 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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
We who 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.
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
An inspiring vision - then courageous action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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