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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
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- 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
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
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
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
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.
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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
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
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
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
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- 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
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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