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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Related topics: Positive Motivational Action
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
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- 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
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- 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
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
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)
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- 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
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
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is all there is - God includes everything,
all possibility and all action,
for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.
- Ernest Holmes
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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
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.
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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