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You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

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.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

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 man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The most effective way to do it is to do it.

To be is to do.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.

The first step is the hardest.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.