Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.
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 most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
We will not know unless we begin.
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
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.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.
To choose is also to begin.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
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.
Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
