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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
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- 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
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- 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 starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- 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
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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.
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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
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
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Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
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If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
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Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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.
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Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
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A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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
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
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
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
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
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Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
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
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
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