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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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