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The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

 

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cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

 

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The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!

 

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Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

 

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To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

 

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Action indeed is the sole medium

 

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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

 

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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.



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Action is the antidote to despair.

 

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I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning -- organize.

 

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

 

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

 

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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

 

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Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

 

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

 

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we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

 

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I have always thought the actions of men the best

 

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

 

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

 

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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!