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    “It’s the task that’s never started that’s more tiresome.” ~ Gretchen Rubin

      “In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ~ Jack Kerouac

        “If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.” ~ Debbie Millman

          If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

          Be not the slave of your own past

            Be not the slave of your own past

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            “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

              “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” ~ Bradley Whitford

                  Three simple rules in life:

                    “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. ” ~ William B. Sprague

                      “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ~ Napoleon Hill

                        "Don't fear failure... In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." ~ Bruce Lee

                          “Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

                            "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

                              “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

                                "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."

                                  “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn

                                    By your own efforts Waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully. You are the master.

                                      "Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door!" ~ Kyle Chandler

                                        “You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.” ~ Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception

                                          “Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.” ~ Stefan Sagmeister