Quotation Explorer - 'Act'

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. - Isocrates

The truth feels like it hurts, yet actually it builds. A lie feels like it builds, yet actually it hurts. - Moffat Machingura

A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis. - Michael Treanor

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. Precipitate in all, this sinner Took action first, and then his dinner. Judibras - Ambrose Bierce

The universe is a mirror; however you look at it, it will look back to you exactly the same way. So extend your hand with love. The universe will hug you with a loving heart. - Debasish Mridha

Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don't be complacent with those activities. Challenge yourself to be better, do greater things. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Rethink Your Mindset because...The view your brain builds and automatically adopts...of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create. - Tony Dovale

A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal. - Debasish Mridha

No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. - Sarah MacLean

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction. - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' - Steven Wright

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life. - Daisaku Ikeda

Dream while you are awake; act while you are asleep. - Debasish Mridha

I put all my positive energy into positive action. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. - Plutarch

When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy. - Diablo Cody

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter F. Drucker

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace! - Widad Akreyi

When you dream, you activate the possibility of what some call impossible. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. - Confucius

Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind. - Christian D. Larson

You can’t control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself. - Debasish Mridha

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations. - Israelmore Ayivor

The fact is I'm in a serious jam. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is a combination of two characters. One part means now and the other means mind or heart. So, when you hear the word mindfulness you can also consider it to mean heartfulness. - Shamash Alidina

People who preach others that the CHANGE starts with oneself should also teach HOW? by practising on own words to let their message reach to every person as what they mean by the word ‘CHANGE’. - Anuj Somany

If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it! - Thiruman Archunan

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive. - John F. MacArthur Jr.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. - Deborah Day

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. - Winston S. Churchill

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings. - Shin Towada

Working with women is such a rewarding experience because as you interact with them, you realize that although they face various struggles, women have one goal, to see the world change for the better. - Gugu Mona

You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO! - Steve Maraboli

A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences. - Saaif Alam

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. - Lu Xun

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. - Jane Yolen

You should lead and serve by example without a title because people will and should remember you by and for your actions and accomplishments for doing good not by your title or positions. - George Stamatis

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust. - Ken Poirot

The moment you let the mind overpower you, you get disconnected from nature. By and by you become less receptive more reactive; less innocent more cunning. Be wiser! - Ramana Pemmaraju

The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism - Jean-Paul Sartre

Tapping into the power of love in your heart, will ignite your desires and activate your actions towards creating life on your terms. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left. - James Rozoff

(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly. - Charles McCarry

We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer. - Brian Wicker

To realize your dreams, you must first take action towards those dreams. - Teresa Marie Garcia

If we had less people who don't know what they are talking about acting like they know what they are talking about, then that's one step closer to making the world a better place. - Ryan Letourneau

Hardships lead to strength of character. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals. - Zig Ziglar

Out of ten people that desire a girl, five people are actually willing to do something to win her heart and from this five, one already has the girl while the other has to fight to win her heart. - Winston Samuels

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. - Catharine A. MacKinnon

Opposites attract only in non-living things like seen in a positively-charged cation and negatively-charged anion; but in a living beings, the attraction is ONLY seen in between the same/similar character, positive or negative, people. - Anuj Somany

No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary. - Utpal Vaishnav

It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered. - Emem Uko

Act to make your vision a reality. - Debasish Mridha

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite. - Srinivas Shenoy

When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" ) - Erik Pevernagie

Goal-oriented actions bring success but actions with love and kindness bring happiness. - Debasish Mridha

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus

We can pull down a nation if we can make them believe that education is not important. If they believe that it is important and begin to act on their belief, then there is nothing anyone can do stop them. - Paul Bamikole

A person’s own dignity is to neither compare oneself with any personality nor copy any style of any celebrity of any size of popularity, but the mimicry for earning livelihood is excluded from this activity. - Anuj Somany

Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise. - Dee Dee Artner

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. - Erich Fromm

Experience is not necessarily accumulated over the extent of time lived. In my opinion, it is accumulated over the degree and variety of activities a person has been involved in - Nike Thaddeus

The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process. - Sanober Khan

If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... - Hunter S. Thompson

Character is what a man is in the dark - Dwight L. Moody

Most people are trying to project themselves to be good rather than being actually good; but even more surprisingly or unfortunately, they are often only garnering the support of many or most. - Anuj Somany

Happiness is a state of activity. - Aristotle

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be. - Maria Montessori

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. - Woodrow Wilson

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. - Marilyn Monroe

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time. - Carla H. Krueger

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. - Frank Herbert

Life is easy with a little offer and Competitive with facts. - Aloysius Jnr.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts. - Philip A. Fisher

Your good deeds is an act of love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness. - Debasish Mridha

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future? - Mehmet Murat ildan

And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin' alone - Billy Joel

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him. - Hedy Lamarr

What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a modem can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. - Dave Barry

There are two things that govern life.It is Positivity and Negativity.You can see life with a Positive eye or drag yourself into a Negative Action. - Jackson Taviri

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. - D.L. Moody

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. - Hermann Bondi

Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom. - Michael Phillip Cash

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. - Eric Hoffer

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both. - Thomas Merton

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action. - Marty Rubin

God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it. - Steve Maraboli

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence. - Debasish Mridha

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. - George Santayana

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. - Anita Roddick

Day to day is a process. Dream it, plan it, do it, and make it happen! You're what you act! - Mahfud Achyar

Results are always hidden in thoughts and actions. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams. - Roopleen

Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue. - Debasish Mridha

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language. - Kathy Acker

After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious. - David Hawkins

There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile. - Nikki Rowe

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Benjamin Franklin

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. - Albert Einstein

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself. - Stephen Richards

Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions. - Debasish Mridha

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. - Virginia Woolf

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work. - Steve Almond

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. - Heywood Broun

Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia. - Truman Capote

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. - Alexander Woollcott

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that. - James DeSantis

Taking action and doing, is one key to success. Keeping logistics in mind - enormous things are possible. - Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"

In our very ordinariness', we are capable of extraordinary actions - Levon Peter Poe

Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Your dreams give you inspiration.Your goals give you a mission.Your failures give you direction.Your successes give you satisfaction. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise - Pieter BF Swart

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. - Craig Claiborne

You do not have to be beautiful.You do not even have to be intelligent.All you have to do is practice kindness,for that is our purpose. - Kamand Kojouri

The surest cure for selfishness is to continually practice random acts of kindness. - R.A.Delmonico

I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't. - Marina Keegan

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. - Ryan Sean O'Reilly

Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map; your actions produce the Motion; your persistence produces Monetary rewards. - Orrin Woodward

Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century - Samer Chidiac

the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept. - yassi tan

What separates the wise from the unwise is; how a person reacts and responds to each new twist of fate. - Aditya Ajmera

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. - Kamand Kojouri

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted. - RJ Arkhipov

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. - George Eliot

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves. - Joana James

It’s just nice to reflect sometimes and remember the things and people that are making a huge impact at any given moment. - Stephen Richards

MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

Your emotions are responsible for your thoughts , choices and actions . Never forget that - Kenrick

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them. - Patrick Stewart

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony. - Ashly Lorenzana

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. - Ivan Pavlov

It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it. - Charlotte Bronte

If you are in a relationship and you care more about what people think or say rather than what you have, you don't deserve that relationship, in fact you don't deserve to be in any relationship at all. - Kambiz Shabankare

im the type of talkactive person, but once im silent. that only have two things,first ; im falling in love,second ; I hate Liar.they could be both ; yes im falling in love with a Liar. - anne idris

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians. - Markham Shaw Pyle

The impact of your life will go beyond your imagination. Live your life to be a blessing. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions. - Ann Radcliffe

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. - Johannes Brahms

Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction. - Sunday Adelaja

People tell me I shouldn't smoke because it is makes you look like a tit. I use exactly the same argument when people tell me they go to the gym. - Robert Clark

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. - Meladee McCarty

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do. - Steve Maraboli

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children. - Stefan Molyneux

How old you are has nothing to do with how wise, smart, or mature you've actually become. - Maria SwifMess

Happiness is there when thoughts and actions are in harmony. - Debasish Mridha

this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world. - Knausgaard, Karl Ove

A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT! - L. Michelle

You can change someone by your actions, not by your words - sid

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels. - Tony Samara

Believe only in the thing that actually happens. - Marty Rubin

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins

Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it is guaranteed. - Philip DeFranco

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. - Elizabeth Gilbert

A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon? - Margaret Atwood

An activity originally intended to be performed by low-status, clerical – and more often than not, female – computer programming was gradually and deliberately transformed into a high-status, scientific, and masculine discipline. - Nathan L. Ensmenger

1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world. - Germany Kent

The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future. - Ray A. Davis

That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs. - Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

You are the author of your success. Every day, you write another page to the chapter of success for you life. Practice at becoming an excellent person, at what you want to be best at. - Mark F. LaMoure

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it. - Erica Jong

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. - Joan Didion

The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice. - Aayush Jain

I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness. - Augusten Burroughs

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

Love Is An Act Of Valour. - Amit Abraham

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. - Albert Camus

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. - Christopher Hitchens

Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain. - Holly Ordway

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. - George Lynch

People are like vines that grow upwards to the Sun in the heavens. Our ascent is inspired by seeking a deep connection with the divine. When we are attracted to others, we are attracted to a spark of the divine that is a reflection of our true being. - Ambika Devi

Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance. - Vijay Dhameliya

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance––it's a silly thing to strive for. But, satisfaction––if you seek satisfaction you can succeed. - Lydia Lunch

You have the power to manifest your dreams.You are fully supported by the Divine.Take action. Do what you need to do.Heal what you need to heal.Create your magic. - Eileen Anglin

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you. - Jeanie Thompson

Perfection of this human life happens when we take the responsibility to be and act as authentic Leaders in every life situation. - Indy Bissessur

I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.[, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest] - Eugene V. Debs

The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person. - MaryElizabeth Williams

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood - Shunryu Suzuki

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. - Abigail Adams

Seek isolation as much as possible from time to time for it gives fuel for own mind ignition to do the right introspection and, importantly, do the correct identification of others character and intention. - Anuj Somany

We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future. - Ken Poirot

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. - Thomas Jefferson

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody. - Thomas Hulme

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. - Bryant McGill

Consistency in your interest is the actual reason behind every success, and inconsistency is the major cause of failure - Syed Shan Asif

In the external reality, an action is required for the manifestation, but in the internal reality, all you need is your presence. Just with the inner presence, things begin to unfold. - Roshan Sharma

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] - Thurgood Marshall

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards. - Dalai Lama XIV

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives. - Asa Don Brown

When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction,lack of trust,lack of understanding,jealousy and possessiveness are produced - Nirja

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need. - Amy Poehler

The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference—by offeringliving proof. - John Capecci and Timothy Cage

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water. - Sherwood Smith

Often success goes hand-in-hand with the sum total of sexual activity in your life. - Stephen Richards

Innovation takes practice more than talent. - Debra Kaye

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character. - Noah Webster

Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making. - Tanya Ward Jordan

You have two voices, one that only you hear, and another that you speak out loud with, so others hear you. Regardless of what you actually say with your mouth, what matters is what your inner voice says, for this is the one you listen to the most. - Stephen Richards

The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation. - Lailah GiftyAkita

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If youwant to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegia

Yeah 220, 221 whatever it takes!" Michael Keaton character in "Mr. Mom - Mark Buff

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution. - F. Sionil José

The most sexually active women need marriage the most to validate themselves. Why not do an orgy to see who proposes? - Kent Lamarc

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. - Ambrose Bierce

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order. - Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical. - Amit Kalantri

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused. - Onyi Anyado

It's too noisy near the surface. To be able to concentrate with all your being, you must shut out all distractions. You must listen with your soul. - Dr.Mani

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man. - Michael James Jackson

Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!! - Pablo

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. - Henry David Thoreau

In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.

In every moment of our life, we can deactivate the self-destruction command. - Marino Baccarini

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished? - Rachel Carson

To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. - John Tibbetts

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. - Margaret Chase Smith

The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was. - Seth Rogen

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life; let it be the day you act upon it. - Steve Maraboli

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. - Alfred A. Montapert

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham - Tom Cunningham

RVM Thoughts for Today - "Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily - R.v.m.

Failure is not actually an event, it is more a reaction to an event and is an important part of learning. - Unarine Ramaru

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in - Fela Durotoye

In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. - Debasish Mridha

You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one. - Faydra D. Fields

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. - Jane Austen

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. - Zig Ziglar

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. - Ronald Reagan

The first principle of freedom is that we are responsible for our actions. - Marty Rubin

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. - Thomas Sowell

Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments. - Randy K. Milholland

Change is not change without changing Your Self first by changing the external factors of yourself, for darkness cannot glow in the light - Goitsemang Mvula

It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there; the other is to distract his mind. - Mary Roberts Rinehart

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angelica Banks

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. - William Hazlitt

You cannot tell what a puzzle is by looking at a single piece; understand people are the same way; don't define them by singular action, but their pattern of behavior. - Steve C. Roberts

Books are lasting longer than (built) architecture. Most of my important projects may never be built, so buildings are important, artifacts are important, but so are books - Peter Eisenmann

Don't just dream of success; create a plan and act upon it! Your momentum creates the door upon which opportunity knocks. - Steve Maraboli

She was our guardian angel. Lucy saved us from mystery. Without her, our marriage would be ruined. Her disappearance created an open wound that we can't fix but the most devasting reality is probably the fact that her body will never be found. She is a living ghost in Wilmington, North Carolina. - Chloé Danielo

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. - Arthur C. Clarke

As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a certain time than its intellectual atmosphere. The atmosphere is reflected not in official events but, most conspicuously, in small, personal episodes... - Zweig, Stefan

Love work with trust, trust work with truth,truth work with characters. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products - Larry McCaffrey

The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action. - Matthew Donnelly

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished. - Emily Thorne

The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance. - Debasish Mridha

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process. - Kelly A. Morgan

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. - Frank Herbert

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness. - John Green

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. - Nicholas Sparks

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am not perfect. Are you? Let us accept the fact that nobody is perfect. Let us learn to accept our imperfections as well as those of others. - RVM

People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters - Henna Sohail

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain

If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation. - Matthew Donnelly

Because of this.Because your funny.Because you know Lolita.And Nabukov and James Mason too.Because you're cute and funny and i'm kind of sad and you haven't tried hitting on me once.Because you weren't even trying... - Matt Fraction

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

Hay lugares que seran tuyos toda la vida... Intactos a pesar del tiempo y los cambios. - Dulce María

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams. - Ray A. Davis

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as clever as you keep telling everyone you are. I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared... - Eoin Colfer

Actually it's just a thought in your mind. Please put in clear your mind with that thoughts.!! - Qasim Raza Qadri

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity - Cyndi Lee

You have to learn about life and love by actually living it. - Marty Rubin

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action. - Orrin Woodward

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Learn to struggle in all four seasons, for opportunity has no date or an exact time to find, you will only get what you need by trying everthing you know, without fear or shame. - Auliq Ice

The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it’s connected to a spark and it wants to burn and it wants to make and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius. - Michael Meade

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist. - Gabriel Brunsdon

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. - Fish

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. - Bob Nelson

Sometimes the greatest act of love is to walk away, so that the other person can find their true self and direction again. - Auliq Ice

It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist. - Linda Berdoll

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. - Cory Doctorow

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either. - Donovan L. Graham

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Many people can easily make out if a person is working or just enjoying by misusing his powerful position and s/he does not need to give any explanation or clarification for his action. - Anuj Somany

You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect! - Max Bialystock

Let inspiration guide your actions. - Ana Ortega

One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected. - Theodore Dalrymple

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. - Thomas Sowell

Scientists are those who change facts - Farid F. Ibrahim

We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking - Julian Pencilliah

Jacta alea est.(The die is cast.) - Julius Caesar

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. - John Wooden

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. - Miguel de Cervantes

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you. - Natalie Lloyd

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public!

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane - Hope Edelman

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness. - William Godwin

Products come with a WARNING label that reveals what they are made of. People come with one too; it is found in their actions. - Steve Maraboli

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. - W. Somerset Maugham

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. - Laurie Anderson

Failure is defined by our reaction to it. - Oprah Winfrey

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer. - Richelle E. Goodrich

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. - Sidney Madwed

If perception is limited by experience and knowledge, what deems my actions correct or my thoughts as moral? - Kierra C.T. Banks

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story. - Shannon L. Alder

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ. - Shannon L. Alder

Half my life is an act of revision. - John Irving

Courage is an act of faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous. - Richard M. Nixon

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action. - Belsebuub

One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear. - Faraaz Kazi

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. - Hayley Williams

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. - Cicero

The perfect man of action, is the suicide. - William Carlos Williams

People who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous. - William Gibson

Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it. - Roshan Sharma

An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult. - Miya Yamanouchi

When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction. - Laura Schlessinger

Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality. - Debasish Mridha

I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up - Frank O'Hara

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go. - Ander Monson

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God. - Kim Clement

PAY PEANUTS & GET MONKEYS’ is a correct thought all the way, but what they have to say about a lot those who pay cashew nuts to one who acts like nuts and makes others work only like flunkeys. - Anuj Somany

Character and Plot...Character and PlotSome writers have it and some do notThis I'll tell you BrotherYou can't have one without the other - Johnny Flora

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain

The deeper you go into the Word of God, the more light you will receive for your life and the wiser you will be in your actions. - Sunday Adelaja

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know. - Hannah More

I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world. - Julian Pencilliah

Sometimes souls are meant to meet and fleet for they have different contracts to complete. - Nikki Rowe

You can always get exactly what you desire. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction. - Anonymous

It has been acknowledged by many that an actor often plays the character in a reel life better than other contenders only if that projected picture role or image is opposite to his/her actual nature in a real life. It is usually a good method to know the true identity of a Cine and TV personality. - Anuj Somany

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. - W. H. Auden

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical. - Marissa Meyer

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja

Fortune hides behind action. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. - Arthur Stanley Eddington

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience. - Quin Hillyer

Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been. - Norris B. Finlayson

God performs miracles, but even for a man to walk on water, action is required. - Matshona Dhliwayo

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place. - Ryan Lilly

Character builds on characters. Very few can recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one. - Vikram Roy

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. - Matt Groening

The aftermath of someone’s death is vertiginous, a murky, shimmering mass; to look at it head-on is to see only the fog of emotion. One must approach it sideways, entering it by way of an exhumation of facts and retrospections . . . - Nicole Rudick

These, then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages - Israelmore Ayivor

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that. - Richard Williams

The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment we lose our humanity. - Chiwetel Ejiofor's character 'Adrian Helmsley' in the movie '2012'

You can now interact with Sheriff Derrick Decker on Facebook. Just look up Derrick Decker! - Laney Smith

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. - Ashly Lorenzana

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy. - Wayne W. Dyer

You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where you most needed to go. - April Bryan

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. - Sun-tzu

The action of a soulful person covertly makes many people brave and bold without the need for them to be advised or told. - Anuj Somany

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. - David Hare

If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine. - Abhijit Naskar

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Edna O'Brien

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. - Robert M. Pirsig

I am bound by conscience and the word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe nor salutary. Here I stad. I can do no ether. So help me God. - Martin Luther

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers - Binye Vincent

Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth; inaction is weighted heavily towards old age. - Clifford Cohen

The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours. - Jerry N. Uelsmann

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off. - Joyce Rachelle

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions. - Shannon L. Alder

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum. - Miley Cyrus

Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something. - Bentinho Massaro

Today, you can take an action that will lead you closer to your visions. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. - Elizabeth Zimmermann

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness. - Thomas Henry Huxley

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. - Karen Blixen

Strength of character will carry you further than physical strength alone. - GamiRae

In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts. - Dave Champion

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact. - Calvin Trillin

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents. - Shannon L. Alder

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action. - Alanis Morissette

When you focus and accept the current moment with love, faith, and joyfulness, you are practicing mindfulness. That is better than controlling the universe. - Debasish Mridha

I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you're learning about is yourself. - Turcois Ominek

This is what works for me: I practise crop rotation with my creative endeavours. I’ve found that when the nitrogen runs out in the soil in one field, it’s best to leave it fallow for a while and cultivate another. - Andrew Macrae

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace." Pax, Pennypacker. - Sara Pennypacker.

Life blackens at the contact of truth. - Paul Valéry

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. - Brandon Sanderson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You wanna respect???- I don't see you to show it... if you show it I will respect you as a character. - Deyth Banger

God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive. - Fanny J. Crosby

Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it. - Tadahiko Nagao

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet. - L.M. Fields

Never defend yourself, but define yourself with your imagination and actions. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

People who have character follow through. They don't lie to themselves or anyone else. They don't start something, ten give up because it's "hard." People of character set a goal and stick to it. - Nancy S. Mure

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge. - Idries Shah

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. - Alain de Botton

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies! - Marie Corelli

...we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.... - Bob Dylan

When u practice something with conscious mind n then continue practicing the same even with sub-conscious mind, You Master it.. - honeya

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. - Ana Monnar

Uninformed, America may succumb to bad ideas and leaders. In succumbing, we fail to fulfill our destiny. Well informed, America rises as far as the good ideas and leaders it proactively chooses. In so rising, we fulfill our destiny and offer to the world vacuum its last best hope. () - Scott L. Vanatter

When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It’s also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed. - Maya Rodale

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce. - Neil Gaiman

Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you; keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning,it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all. - Maria Erving

An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need. - Shannon L. Alder

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits. - George Spafford

The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence, --- not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind. - William Kirby

Your choices define your actions; your actions define your life. - Debasish Mridha

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. - C.S. Lewis

Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. - Jean de la Bruyere

A person can always know the character of the people by their face, but it is possible perhaps only to one who says only what he means and ,therefore, remains often on the life's challenging phase. - Anuj Somany

Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Do try The House by fresh new author, , it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. - Susannah Mansfield

When you realize that emotions aren't truth and they are simply reactions to life circumstances, they can no longer hold you captive. - Diamante Lavendar

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. - Quentin Tarantino

I do have a religion; it’s just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature. - Stephan Attia

The more actively engaged you are in the present moment, the more aware you will become of yourself; your actions and reactions. As you become more aware, you will increase your ability to change what it is you do and how. - Akiroq Brost

Be mindful of the link between action and outcome. Ask yourself: If I repeat today's action 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year? - Guideposts Books

You tend to become like that, what you like and respect. Write down your goals and take action to make them happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Devote yourself to making your life blossom for success. - Mark F. LaMoure

When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract. - Richard Marcel I.

For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated. - Nike Thaddeus

Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory. - Steve Maraboli

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal - Leonard Ravenhill

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee. - Charlotte M. Liebel

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions. - Oscar Bimpong

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. - DaShanne Stokes

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. - Dorothy Day

Never confuse movement with action. - Ernest Hemingway

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does. - Venkat Desireddy

There is no value for a knowledge that has not been shared. More you share more it will be and will make impacts over impacts, influence one to another in a positive way. - Baris Gencel

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. - John Climacus

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. - James Branch Cabell

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things. - C.S. Lewis

You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others. - Debasish Mridha

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing. - William Gibson

Feelings have more to do with the story you tell yourself than the facts. - Marilyn Suttle

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense. - Jennifer Egan

How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact...what you really need is closure from your past. - Norman Bridwell

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown

Visualize yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself into an excellent person, with constant practice and perseverance. Enjoy and relish the process. - Mark F. LaMoure

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working. - Lisa Kudrow

Everything is practice. - Pelé

What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same?Doubt you'd be happy.So, why are you afraid of change? - Karen Salmansohn

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself. - Moe Cidaly

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. - John Locke

It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action. - Al Batt

EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said -- and God forgive it! - Ambrose Bierce

Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong - Sunday Adelaja

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. - Arthur Schopenhauer

To be beautiful is a good thing, for which we should thank Nature—to be attractive, morally, rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that lasting quality. - Duchess

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. - Mike Norton

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. - George Bernard Shaw

The greatest purpose in life, the greatest achievement one could ever have in life, the greatest satisfaction one could ever get in life can only be found in the service of others. - Omoakhuana Anthonia

Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots. - C.Z. Hazard

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction. - Dada Bhagwan

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain. - Jim Al-Khalili

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him. - Israelmore Ayivor

What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance. - Simone de Beauvoir

Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action. - Marty Rubin

You have to work on it. You have to meditate on God’s Word, which itself will change you and transform you into the image and character of God. - Sunday Adelaja

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. - George Eliot

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. - Norman Douglas

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. - William James

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. - Carl Friedrich Gauß

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. - Robert McKee

Being your age is hard enough without having to act it. - P.K. Shaw

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible. - Raheel Farooq

In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action. - Bono

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. - Brian Raif

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery. - Horace Greeley

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. - Saint Jerome

True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication. - Edwin Schlossberg

You are the energy you attract. Whether you are aware of that or not, everything you come up against is teaching you about that part within yourself. Listen carefully, it's a hint to a better you. - Nikki Rowe

You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing. - Alice Walker

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer. - Lori Goodwin

Three golden keys that unlock the door to excellence are determination, hard work and practice. - Mark F. LaMoure

Our actions are reflections, not of who we are, but who we think we are. - Justin Young

People who actually have good advice seldom give it voluntarily, instead others seek them out for it. They do not shove it down people's throats just to boost their exaggerated sense of importance. - JJ Matebesi

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. - Peter McWilliams

But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity? - Gary Taubes

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure - Dean Cavanagh

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. - George Orwell

It’s like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that’s all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen. - Colleen Houck

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented. - Debasish Mridha

Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration. - Onyi Anyado

Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems - Albert Einstein

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - , Justice [1910], act II - John Galsworthy

Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, "We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. - Laurell K. Hamilton

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life. - Brian Andreas

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. - Catherine Drinker Bowen

The devil attacks you today, because you have got a future. He wants to destroy you for that very reason, because he is scared of your future acts and exploits. - Sunday Adelaja

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract. - Jeffrey Tucker

The situation come back again but you will not act like before again. - Saily Badsha

...What's more, I live in Berkeley, California. If princesses had infiltrated OUR little retro hippie hamlet, imagine what was going on places where women actually shaved their legs! - Peggy Orenstein

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them. - David J. Schwartz

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? - Stephen King

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. - Luis Valdez

A #loveselfie isn't a picture or a status update. It's an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It's being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it. - Amy Leigh Mercree

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that. - Steve Maraboli

It is not money that is been jeopardized on daily basis, it is actually 86,400 seconds of your life. You are given that amount of life every day in time not in money. - Sunday Adelaja

Don't Run For Success, Practice Perfection. - Bharath Mamidoju

One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was a real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep. - Pēteris Bitāns

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier? - Carol Burnett

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. - Madonna

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. - Buddha

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. - Krishnamurti

Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, act and behave poorly. - Uzoma Nnadi

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. - Stephen Jay Gould

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost. - Nan Goldin

If one can exactly see the world ‘as it is’; if one can exactly see the ‘relative’ and the ‘real’, it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul). - Dada Bhagwan

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought. - Amit Abraham

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. - Jon Stewart

Some memories seems to be so far away .. however it was just yesterday !! Others seem to be so clear ,, however it was years ago !! Actually it depends on how far we are from those who shared us those moments !! - Gehad Badr

Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path. - Sameh Elsayed

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. - Henry Bessemer

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] - Linda Lantieri

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. - Truman Capote

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts. - Harper Lee

Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life! - Constance Chuks Friday

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand. - Ryan Lilly

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries. - Onyi Anyado

Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most - Tony Dovale

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are. - Richard Bach

Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull. - Abhijit Naskar

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday. - Orison Swett Marden

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football. - Fran Lebowitz

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - Henry Clay

Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance. - Nikki Rowe

I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react." (p.180) - Jeff Dixon-The Key To The Kingdom

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters. - Ryan Lilly

Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from pre-primary preparedness to sites of political practice. - Pamela Wallberg

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity. - Shannon L. Alder

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others. - Roy T. Bennett

Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions. - Debasish Mridha

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination. - Debasish Mridha

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character - Thomas Jefferson

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. - Mattie J.T. Stepanek

Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon. - Amah Lambert

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. - Albert Einstein

How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live is an excellent book...very transformative and empowering..lot of practical advise for people struggling to overcome any problem in their life - Nandita Keshavan

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. - Walter Cronkite

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction. - Dominic Riccitello

Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache - Vignesh Sv

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries. - Audrey Tautou

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When we plan our time, in fact, we plan our success. - Sunday Adelaja

When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no powerwill be able to hinder you achieving your set goals. - Sunday Adelaja

When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlocked the possibilities within! - TemitOpe Ibrahim