256 quotes found
“Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin it should make you jump up and do something.”
“To do anything in this 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.”
“Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?”
“The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.”
“This one makes a net this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?”
“If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.”
“As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.”
“Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.”
“If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.”
“If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.”
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.”
“Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.”
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
“Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.”
“To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is sta...”
“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.”
“Do noble things do not dream them all day long.”
“That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.”
“Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.”
