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May these quotes about Initiative inspire and motivate you.
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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