Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.
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end, is art. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. It is thought that make... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Jane Heard. ONE I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, ... GUY DE MAUPASSANT A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment (or ego), only... BHAGAVAD GITA Learn to become better at making decisions and to spring into action by setting deadlines in your da... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it. WALLACE D. WATTLES Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. SOURCE UNKNOWN Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflect... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or... SIDNEY MADWED One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. RAINER MARIA RILKE A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the r... JAWAHARLAL NEHRU A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the rea... JAWAHARLAL NEHRU A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the re... NEHRU In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by the... ROLAND ALLEN Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by refl... HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate. JAMES ALLEN Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting t... SIMON MAINWARING Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. ESTELLE RAMEY Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoni... ARISTOTLE Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil an... MAHMOUD ABBAS The best way to conquer fear is to push through it by taking immediate action. JEFFREY BENJAMIN You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing SOTONYE ANGA Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ... ANDRE BRETON Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify an... , 48. LAO-TZU Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. KWAME NKRUMAH In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, o... WILLIAM GODWIN We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by perfor... ARISTOTLE What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our d... E.M. FORSTER But in action, one defies one's character. DANIEL BELL The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one... CARL GUSTAV JUNG But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A... JAMES MEADE When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one'... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form o... CHRIS PRENTISS Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou... VIRGINIA WOOLF Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fi... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe... MAHATMA GANDHI Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe... MAHATMA GANDHI Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe... MOHANDAS GANDHI One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs, NORMAN SANDLER The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consider... KONSTANTIN STANISLAVISKY If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one spe... THE DHAMMAPADA Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ... LAURENCE HOPE Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ... ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thoug... RICHARD SAVAGE But in action, one defies one's character. DANIEL BELL Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic a... RICHARD HOFSTADTER Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. MARGUERITE GARDINER It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because what... DAVID R. HAWKINS What is fictitious in a novel is not so much the story but the method by which thought develops into... EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla... HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Success is never eluded to one who acts with wisdom,courage & positive state of mind. Wisdom provide... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart ... DOUG LIMAN All conscious thought and action are born of need and choice. Change one and you change the other. BJ MORIN Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the ... JAMES AGEE Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to... SHARON WEIL I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone. CHARLES VAN DOREN by the act of disobedience one is demoted from the position while as by the action of disobedience o... MTHUKI LODRICK Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ERMA BOMBECK Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one en... LUDWIG VON MISES (Blair) was saying that one way or another inaction was not a possibility -- there has to be action ... ROBIN OAKLEY The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of ... GILBERT HIGHET Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of ha... LAURELL K. HAMILTON If we thought for one minute it was anything more than an error of judgment, rest assured we would h... DES GLEESON [Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me... ELIZABETH VARGAS I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a ... AARON PAUL If you do not even know one as yourself, then you do not even know them as other. AARON SANTOS There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is o... OSCAR WILDE Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wound... HERBERT HOOVER ...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keep... ALAN HEATHCOCK One by one they faded away or were acquired. JACK KYSER I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does n... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of ... ALBERT CAMUS The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desi... KARL MENNINGER He thinks one of the best ways to become a better investor is by reading business biographies. AL AUXIER A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equ... LYSANDER SPOONER One gradually attains tranquillity of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means o... BHAGAVAD GITA You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretatio... EVEN ENGESLAND One must inculcate virtue of positive vision.Positive vision enrich one with self efficacy. Self eff... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. MAHATMA GANDHI Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. MOHANDAS GANDHI One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... GEORG GRODDECK The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one PROVERB It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Strength does not come by numbers; it comes by one mind, one heart, and one soul. MARCELINO IBARRA Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be cor... IAIN PEARS Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ERMA BOMBECK
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Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a sympto... HELEN FISHER Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place ... HELEN KELLER The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. HELEN KELLER It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may b... HELEN KELLER No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r... HELEN KELLER Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! HELEN KELLER College isn't the place to go for ideas. HELEN KELLER My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. HELEN KELLER As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. HELEN KELLER Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ... 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HELEN FISHER Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
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