Initiative

No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.

We don’t need to see where the staircase leads to take the first step.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900Protests: I would rather die standing in resistance than begging on my knees!

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The turtle only moves ahead by sticking out its neck.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

We must each ask ourselves: What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour—and do it!