moonlit_reveriesInspirational quotes
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed to two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
-JFK
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
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“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
-Annie Dillard
“There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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 winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
-Leo F. Buscaglia (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
“You must lose a fly to catch a trout”
-George Herbert
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anais Nin
(that day is creeping up on me because it is getting very painful)
“To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.”
Timothy Childers
“TO RISK:
To laugh, is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep, is to appear sentimental
To reach out for another, is to risk involvement
To expose feelings, is to risk exposing our true self.
To place your ideas & dreams before the crowd is to risk loss
To love, is to risk not being loved in return.
To live, is to risk dying.
To hope, is to risk despair.
To try at all is to risk failure.
But to risk we must,
Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The man, the women, who risk nothing,
has nothing, is not living well.”
-Anonymous
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
-Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Quotes on Action
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale:
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
- Kahlil Gibran:
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman:
It’s time for greatness - not for greed. It’s a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
Marian Wright Edelman:
Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
- Vaclav Havel
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
-Japanese proverb
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
“Action conquers fear.” 4 years ago
