A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ Chinese Proverb
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.
~ Indira Gandhi
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
~ Johann Von Goethe
If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.
~ Anonymous
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.
~ Dutch Proverb
The beginning is half of every action.
~ Greek Proverb
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
~ Bruce Barton
Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.
~ Mrs. Herman Stanley
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 Independent
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
~ Rachel Carson
We will not know unless we begin.
~ Howard Zinn
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
~ Alexander Clark
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood however much you preach posture or agree unless you live it.
~ Faith Baldwin
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
~ Sally Berger
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 starved and destroyed.
~ John Tillotson
To choose is also to begin.
~ Starhawk
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.
~ Yula Moses
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
~ Linda Blandford
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
~ Dorothy Day
Do noble things do not dream them all day long.
~ Charles Kingsley
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.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't wait for your ship to come in and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
~ Irene Kassorla
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.
~ Madame C. J. Walker
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
~ William James
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~ James Russell Lowell
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.
~ George Eliot
You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.
~ Frederick B. Wilson
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.
~ James A. Froude
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.
~ Wendell Phillips
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
~ William Gilmore Simms
I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.
~ Alfred
Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
~ Albert Camus
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
~ Florynce Kennedy
