ACTION & SUCCESS

      Without action, nothing moves.

      Without movement, nothing changes.

      Focused results requires focused action.

"If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future, look into your present action."
-- Padmisambha

"Even the journey of a thousand miles befins with the firsr step."
-- Lao Tse

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
-- Vaclav Havel

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers

"No rules for success will work if you don't."
-- Author unknown

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
-- Woody Allen

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
-- Benedetto Croce

"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day."
-- Sanskrit Proverb

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."
-- Albert Gray

"Don't ask the Lord to guide your footsteps unless you are willing to move your feet." -- Christian proverb

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-- Aristotle

"Skill to do comes of doing."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success."
-- Dorthea Brande

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
-- Vidal Sassoon

"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort."
-- Charles Givens

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-- Arthur Godfrey

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it."
-- Joel Barker

"Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing."
-- Helen Keller

"Success doesn't come to you...you go to it."
-- Marva Collins

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."
-- Brian Adams

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
-- Andrew Jackson, U.S. President

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."
-- Marie Beyon Ray

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
-- Confucius

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
-- Helen Keller

"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."
-- Zig Ziglar

"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
-- Mildred McAfee

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
-- Seneca

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act."
-- Maxwell Maltz

"The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks."
-- Peter McWilliams

"Leap, and the net will appear."
-- Julie Cameron

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."
-- David Rockefeller

"The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well."
-- John D. Rockefeller

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right."
-- Edward Simmons

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
-- Stephen Covey

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."
-- Lao Tsu

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
-- Sydney J. Harris

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   Recognition & Success

   Dreams & Success

   Purpose & Success

   Self-Expression & Success

   Mind/Thought & Success

   Visualization & Success

   Personal Growth & Success

   Commitment/Enthusiasm & Success

   Strategy/Preparation & Success

   Service & Success

   Projection/Energy & Success

   Action & Success

   Perseverence/Persistence & Success

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