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- Robert Browning
Are there not... Two points in the adventure of the diver: One -- when a beggar, he prepares to plunge? Two -- when a prince, he rises with his pearl? I plunge!
- Anonymous
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- Bertolt Brecht, 1933
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Irene Kassorla
Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
- Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet and Dramatist
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
- Vance Havner (1901-1986) American Baptist Preacher
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs.
- Alexis Carrel
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) American Author and Humorist
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- J.N. Fadenburg
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
Patriotism and philanthropy consist, not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions, as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves by their own free and independent individual action.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American Writer
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Chinese proverb
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once
what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
- Robert Cushing (Robert Cushing Dennison) (1921-1998) American Colonel
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand
back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can.
- Orlando A. Battista
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
- Nolan Bushnell
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
- Harrison Ford (1942-) American Actor
The force is within you. Force yourself.
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