#1348 Rolling up your sleeves

Life without idealism is empty indeed.  We just hope or starve to death.  ~ Pearl S. Buck

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.  ~ Aldous Huxley

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.  ~ Herbert Hoover

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.  ~ Charles Dickens

We are inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their actions.  ~ Harold Nicolson

Idealism detached from action is just a dream.  But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting.  It's very real.  It's very strong.  ~ Bono

Quotes about ideals, idealism

- What are several of your ideals?
- To what extent are you following through with action? 

#1347 The treasure you seek

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.  ~ W. Clement Stone

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.  ~ Usman B. Asif

Fear makes us feel our humanity.  ~ Benjamin Disraeli

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.  ~ Anatole France

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is to be understood.  ~ Marie Curie

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.  ~ Joseph Campbell

Quotes about fear

- What fear may you be nurturing?
- What steps can you take to resolve it?

#1346 The sturdiest tree

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.  ~ Elizabeth Edwards

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.  ~ Paula McLain

Bless are the hearts that can bend, for they can never be broken.  ~ Albert Camus

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.  ~ Maya Angelou

Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.  ~ Gregory Boyle

The greatest glory in living
lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.  ~ Nelson Mandela

The sturdiest tree is not found in the shelter of the forest but high upon some rocky crag, where its daily battle with the elements shapes it into a thing of beauty.  ~ unknown

Quotes about resilience

- When have you been challenged or discouraged?
- Where can you show some resilience?

#1345 Those who bring sunshine

We are what we believe we are.  ~ C. S. Lewis

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.  ~ Norman Vincent Peale

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.  ~ James Matthew Barrie

Quotes about bright, brightness in life

- How brightly do you see yourself?
- How can you share some of that brightness?

#1344 Will find the way

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.  ~ Doug Firebaugh

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.  ~ Pablo Picasso

Do what you love and you will find the way to get it out to the world.  ~ Judy Collins

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  ~ Goethe

Quotes about doing

- What needs to be done in order to enrich your life and possibly that of others?

#1343 By three methods

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.  ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Be firm on principle but flexible in method.  ~ Zig Ziglar

The true method of knowledge is experiment.  ~ William Blake

Take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But, above all, try something.  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt  

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

Man must evolve for all human conflict, a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.  The foundation of such a method is love.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first by reflection which is the noblest, second by imitation which is the easiest, and third by experience which is the bitterest.  ~ Confucius

Quotes about methods

- What methods have helped you navigate through life?

#1342 The push for what we need

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather by attempting to satisfy them.  ~ John Stuart Mill

A life directed chiefly towards the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment.   ~ Albert Einstein

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.  ~ Lao Tzu

Every man is rich or poor in proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.  ~ Samuel Johnson

Boredom:  the desire for desires.  ~ Leo Tolstoy

Needs cause motivation.  Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.  ~ Lorii Myers

Quotes about desires

- What desires might be best subdued?
- What positive desires are best pursued and cultivated?