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~ Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~

Frank Outlaw

~ Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~

Dwight D. Eisenhower

~ The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. ~

Herbert Spencer

~ Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~

Tyron Edwards

~ Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny ~

Tryon Edwards

~ The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling ~

Samuel Taylor

~ To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self ~

Joan Didion

~ I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off. ~

Frank Snepp

~ On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~

Havelock Ellis

~ There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. ~

Tom Krause

~ Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ 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

~ Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. ~

Harold S. Geneen

~ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ~

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

~ It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. ~

Stanley Milgram

~ It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. ~

Stanley Milgram

~ I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ~

John Enoch Powell

~ Dreams grow holy put in action ~

Adelaide Anne Procter

~ Dreams have as much influence as actions ~

Stephane Mallarme

~ Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. ~

William James

~ If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ~

Thomas Wolfe

~ Honest hearts produce honest actions. ~

Brigham Young

~ A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life. ~

Mark Twain

~ The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap. ~

Price Pritchett

~ Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. ~

John Akers

~ Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. ~

Tenzin Gyatso

~ People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold. ~

Richard Thalheimer

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