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INITIATIVE: No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

INITIATIVE: We donâ€™t need to see where the staircase leads to take the first step. (Natalia Vie, Latina-American fencing champion)

INITIATIVE: Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti, English poet, 1830-1894)

INITIATIVE: Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan Francis Behan, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

INITIATIVE: As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

INITIATIVE: Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

INITIATIVE: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. (Chinese proverb)

INITIATIVE: I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

INITIATIVE: You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills, U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

INITIATIVE: You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers. (Buddhist proverb)

INITIATIVE: He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. (Dutch proverb)

INITIATIVE: 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! (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

INITIATIVE: Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. (Henry Van Dyke, U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

INITIATIVE: He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)

INITIATIVE: The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

INITIATIVE: The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)

INITIATIVE: The turtle only moves ahead by sticking out its neck. (Unknown source)

INITIATIVE: From a fallen tree, all make kindling. (Spanish proverb)

INITIATIVE: Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Unknown source)

INITIATIVE: We must each ask ourselves: What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour---and do it! (Unknown source)