“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”— John F. Kennedy, presidency.ucsb.edu
“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com
“You are defined by the way in which you treat the people you love. And, the people you hate.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest. But we can’t forget that he who doesn’t flap his wings, never flies at all.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.”— Sylvia Earle, amazon.com
“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.”— Sydney J. Harris, amazon.com
“People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight.”— Erin Bowman, amazon.com
“The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.”— Alice Miller, amazon.com
“To you, love isn’t just a word, it’s an action. It’s waking up next to the same person every day, and supporting them through better and worse.”— Andrea Davis, thoughtcatalog.com