Tendency Quotes

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

Related topics: Wisdom

It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

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

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

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

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

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

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 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

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

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.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

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

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

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez

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

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

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.

Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie