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Jeffrey Benjamin

Talk can get you there, but action will embrace.

Topic: Action, Communication
Location: Hawaii, Maui
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A false leader uses force to gain conformity. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Great ideas are useless without action. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Leadership Thinking Work

It is up to you to break through. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Breakthrough Self

Written goals produce greater results than if goals are vaguely floating through your mind. — Jeffrey Benjamin

The best way to evaluate a person is by performance not intellect. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Leadership

Finishing is more important than starting. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Commitment Discipline

Confidence in yourself is the single most important ingredient for leading a life of success and happiness. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Confidence Happiness Success

Integrity is holding yourself to account. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Accountability Integrity

My happiness is contingent upon me. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. — Bruce Lee

Confidence Conviction Self

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. — William Blake

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann

I have my right to courage as much as you have your right to fear. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Choice Courage Decision Fear

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. — Sophocles

Appreciation Communication compliment Friendship Gratitude Kindness

The words you speak are commands that seek. — Jeffrey Benjamin

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. — Blaise Pascal

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare

Action Commitment Consistent Persistence Work

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many. — Thomas Jefferson

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I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

› Walt Disney

Action Belief Commitment Dreams Risk

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. — Benjamin Disraeli

One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. — Henry Ford

Action Discovery Fear Inspiration

Action has power over words. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Leadership Practice

Put out the fire while it is small. — African Proverb

Imagination means nothing without doing. — Charlie Chaplin

Action Imagination Work

It's not what you look at but what you see, say, believe, and do that matters. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Go and wake up your luck. — Persian Proverb

Action Leadership Luck Work

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action Thinking Work

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Action Integrity Leadership Thinking

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

› Marcus Aurelius

Conduct is the highest advice. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Advice Example Leadership

If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent van Gogh

Action Confidence Courage Fear

When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare. — John Wooden

Action Life Opportunity Preparation

I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. — W. Clement Stone

He that will have the kernel, must crack the shell. — Dutch Proverb

Action Leadership Work

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. — Thomas Edison

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. — Nelson Mandela

Action Courage Fear Goals Purpose

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. — Henrik Ibsen

Action Leadership Work

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. — Henry James

Action Goals Time

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. — Ayn Rand

Accountability Action Choice

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

Action Life Time Work

I know longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior does not lie. — Winston Churchill

Action Character Communication Leadership Listening

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. — Benjamin Franklin

Communication Intelligence Persuasion

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. — Benjamin Franklin

Communication Listening Negotiation Persuasion

Brevity is the soul of wit. — William Shakespeare

Communication Public Speaking Speech

Many people who have the gift of gab don’t know how to wrap it up. — Arnold Glasow

A master communicator can either set his audience free or imprison them. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Persuasion

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. — Henry David Thoreau

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. — Jonathan Swift

Communication Public Speaking Speech

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

› Eleanor Roosevelt

Choice Communication Decision

We lost because we told ourselves we lost. — Leo Tolstoy

Affirmation Belief Communication

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley

Be not careless in your deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. — Marcus Aurelius

Action Communication Public Speaking Speech Thinking

When another speaks, be attentive yourself, and disturb not the audience. — George Washington

Communication Listening Public Speaking

Not being heard is no reason for silence. — Victor Hugo

Communication Listening

Saying is one thing and doing is another. — Michel de Montaigne

Action Communication Leadership Speech

Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. — Helen Keller

Choice Communication Confidence

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. — Mark Twain

Communication Humor Persuasion Society

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is key to any hope of progress in negotiation. — Dwight Eisenhower

Business Communication Life Listening Negotiation Persuasion

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. — Mohandas Gandhi

Communication Happiness Solitude Thinking

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. — William Shakespeare

Action Communication

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

› Winston Churchill

Communication Freedom Honor Hope

If you want to be heard, learn how to listen. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Listening

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. — Frederick Douglass

Communication Freedom Speech

When you are losing, wear a winning face. — French Proverb

Attitude Communication

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