“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put this plan into action.”

“God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.”

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

“The haves and the have-nots can often be traced to the dids and the did-nots.”

“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“Discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“It is easier to become optimistic when you begin to take action. Any action is sufficient to begin to improve your outlook and your feelings of optimism. As action happens, solutions begin to appear.”

"Motivation follows action instead of the other way around."

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

“Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”

“Perfection is highly desirable. But nothing man-made or man-designed is, or can be, absolutely perfect. So to wait for the perfect set of conditions is to wait forever.”

“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

“Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

"Just nodding your head won’t row the boat."

“We merely use the label *defeat* to describe the fact that we have made the decision to stop trying.”

"Instead of wondering if you could have been, should have been, or might have been… just do. Take action."

“Knowledge isn’t power - action is.”

“Successful people act They do not sit and wait and hope something will happen. They go out and make things happen. W. Clement Stone, the highly successful insurance billionaire attributed much of his success to three simple words: ‘Do it now!’ Take massive action.”

“You don’t have to operate from passion to begin with. You operate from necessity. So, the first passion is to survive. To somehow make it. Then start to build from there with something that you could find to do even if it is distasteful. You don’t have to love what you do. Just love the chance or the opportunity to begin the process. Because where you begin is not where you have to end a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now.”