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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
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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
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
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 starting point of all achievement is desire.
- 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
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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.
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
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
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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