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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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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.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- 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
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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