"To discover your mission and put it into……" — Scilla Elworthy
"To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love."
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17 Quotes by Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy has 17 quotes on this site.
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those…
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Change happens at the level of the individual
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a…
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As…
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther…
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Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if…
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving…
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully…
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Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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