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CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho

Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer

Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When I Come To The Edge of the Familiar,
I Spread My Wings and Fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha

Cherish the uncertainty of life's adventures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson

Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs

Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves.
- Trieu Thi Trinh

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau

Scuttle the Assumptions, dash the Expectations,
and hoist the sails of CHOICE to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose to adopt the attitude toward failure that sports teams do.
In each game, one team succeeds and one fails.
Then the next week they both get out and play again.
Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho

Choose wisely - then act decisively. Do it today!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't dream it, be it.
- the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show

Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach

I Act with Bold Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Fortune and love befriend the bold.
- Ovid

Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll

You are defined by your habits - choose well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous

Manage through the uncertainties.
Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices.
Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:
celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own.
Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie