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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Wobegon.
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
A great architect is not made by way of a brain
nearly so much as he is made by way
of a cultivated, enriched heart.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- 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
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
I Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in 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
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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