Monday, April 30, 2012

Action Quotes

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.
- Stephen Covey 

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- ‎Frances Willard 

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- Hannah Arendt 

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill 

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill 



We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- Stevie Wonder 

‎Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
- Wim Wenders 

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.
- Mark Twain 

Action is eloquence.
- William Shakespeare 

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
- Aristotle 

Think globally, act locally.
- Rene Dubos 

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
- Audre Lorde 

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt 

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- Buddha 

Do one thing every day that scares you.
- Eleanor Roosevelt 

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
- Immanuel Kant 

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
- Madame de Stael 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent van Gogh 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus 

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln 

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
- Buddha 

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
- Abraham Maslow 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy 

Great talent finds happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.
- Barack Obama 

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt 

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!
- High Eagle 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
- Orison Swett Marden 

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

There are no gains without pains.
- Benjamin Franklin 








































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