“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but also the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful, perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”

“I think there is something more important than believing. Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take steps to actualise their vision.”

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending”

“So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

“I have enough, I do enough, I am enough”

“Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.”

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.”

“Each uneventful day that passes reinforces the steadily growing false sense of confidence that everything is alright. That I, we, my group, must be OK, because the way we did things today resulted in no adverse consequences.”

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

“I think there is something more important than believing. Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough whio will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualise their vision.”

“"What is opportunity, and when does it knock?" It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live, with your self-respect alive and growing.”

“Great Works are performed not by strength but by perserverance. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe”

“Action springs not from thought, but from readiness to take responsibility”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

“Together Everyone really does Achieve More!”

“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings”

“You don’t need data or climate science to persuade your tricky mind. You just need to tune in and act.”

Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy,sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, ...

“What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That’s what you ought to be doing.”

“What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you, is nothing compared to what lies within you.”

“Whatever you do, do with integrity. Wherever you go, go as a leader. Whoever you serve, serve with care. Whenever you dream, dream with your all. And never, ever give up.”

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills”

“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid”

“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.”

“Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don't depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.”

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned”

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

“Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion”

“Go ahead and change the world: identify your mission, break it into small steps by asking the question: what can you do in the next 24 hours?”

“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.”

“If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.”

“What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?”

“Your descendants shall gather your fruits. ”

“Whatever one possesses, becomes of double value, when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others. ”

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

“It always seems impossible until its done ”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. ”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ”

“I have found every step I take to reduce my carbon footprint increases my quality of life”

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it. ”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. ”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

“I'm excited about today! Why? Because whatever happens will be unique to this day. Today will NEVER be repeated. So I will savour each moment.”

“If you want something you’ve never had before, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done before ”

“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. ”

“We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction”

“we want what's over the next hill, instead of counting our blessings and loving the present moment, for its own sake, for its ultimate reality.”

“A volunteer is worth 20 pressed men”

“Buy less, choose well and make it last”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the overcoming of it. ”

“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and he can feed himself for life. Teach him to make his own fishing tackle and you have helped him to become not only self-supporting but also self-reliant and independent.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits. ”

“Don’t Be An Amber Gambler: Amber Rudd, Amber Rudd, Now’s the time to do some good. Amber Rudd, Amber Rudd, You’ll never turn red That’s clearly understood But most of us here are extremely keen For true-blue Amber to start turning green”

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”

“Walking is good for my body, good for my mind and good for my spirit.”

“I could not dig; I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? ”

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”

“Was the Earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.”

“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ”

“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ”

“Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems”

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

“We’ve seen albatrosses come back with their belly full of food for their young. You think it’s going to be squid, but it’s plastic”

“The tree that moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way”