Initiative

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

If you are not doing good with what little you have, depend upon it the more money you get the more selfish you would become...If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it.

If you don't go after what you want, you could spend your entire life settling for what you can get.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Seek the extremes. Identify the boundaries in order to conquer self-imposed limits and rule everything with freedom.

Wisdom is the ultimate tool for forging a future.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Daily Decisions Determine Destiny

‘Bigger isn’t always better’, but you won’t know unless you try.

Time is just a bunch of numbers… legacy is what you make of your time.

If life is moving slowly… Run faster!

To me life is more than just a box of chocolates… it’s what you make of it. So make it a good one!

Cut your own path and make your life happen

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

We will only banish ignorance with artistry.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

Take life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing. No one to blame.

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you’ve never explored before, what human nature is like.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Water has the capability to splatter: it needs a splash.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them.

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what is the use of seeing?

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

Success doesn't come to you.  You go to it.

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

But never forget that you can only stumble if you are moving.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Until One is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come his or her way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.