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Take the first step…   

• A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
• The distance of the road to success becomes shorter as soon as you take the first step. Greg Phillips  
• No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards the solution. Do something. Georg Nordenholt
• The distance isn’t important; it is only the first step that is difficult. Marquise Deffand  
• To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Fortunate are those who take the first steps. Paulo Coelho  
• Life is not going to come down there and sprinkle glitter dust on your shoulders to let you know that you are Good…or that you are walking the right Path …or that you are making the Best Decision. Take the next step. Right now. Stop waiting for a “sign” from the “gods.”  Your sign is your intuition, wrapped in your desire.  Hesitation is not a stopping place on the road to heaven. Neale Donald Walsch  
• He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. Chinese Proverb  
• Action—in the present—changes the future. A trip of ten thousand miles starts out with one step, not with a fantasy about travel. David K. Reynolds
• When there is a start to be made, don’t step over! Start where you are. Edgar Cayce
• Action,  Harness the power of small, consistent action steps,  It’s never too late to make a fresh start,  Procrastination, Think big and start small

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… even if the first step is a small, simple one   

• Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now! Tim Ferriss
• Start wherever you are and start small. Rita Baily 
• Every change starts in a small step. Ron Stolero
• All great things have small beginnings. Peter Senge
• Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Indira Gandhi
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes 
• From small beginnings come great things. Proverb 
• The most momentous leaps of growth commonly have as their springboard fairly modest first steps. Nathaniel Branden
• What’s the “big” thing you’d like to change that just hasn’t been happening? Creating a meditation practice? Exercising? Eating better? How can you start super small? Robert Maurer
• Harness the power of small steps

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Success is a small step taken now, not a large one in the future   

• Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. Jonatan Mårtensson
• All glory comes from daring to begin. Eugene F. Ware
• The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy
• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. David Viscott
• Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. Mary Manin Morrissey    
• Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith 
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There is power in being a beginner

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. Barabra Sher 
• My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained, and unprejudiced mind. Hans Selye 
• Do it like it’s the first time. A beginner’s mind is open and an open mind innovates. Danielle LaPorte 
• Cultivate a beginner’s mind moment to moment. Jon Kabat-Zinn 
• In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki 
• Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. Meister Eckhart
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started   

• The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese 
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain
• It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. Henry James
• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. David Viscott 
• You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Joe Sabah
• Memorize and follow this never-fail recipe: get started. Don’t quit. Barbara Winter
• Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha 
• You will never win if you never begin. Helen Rowland 

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The biggest challenge is always in starting   

• It is estimated that it takes less than seven per cent of a locomotive’s power to pull a train of box cars, but that it needs one hundred per cent of a locomotive’s power to start the train. The task, the difficulty and the job seem to be in starting. Start something. Earl Prevette 
• Making the beginning is one third of the work. Irish Proverb 
• A hard beginning maketh a good ending. John Heywood 

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Make a start and you’re half way there   

• The beginning is half of every action. Greek proverb
• The distance is nothing, it is only the first step that is difficult. Marie du Deffand
• He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. Dutch Proverb
• He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning. Horace
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato
• The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. Robyn Davidson
• Setting out well is a quarter of the journey. Proverb 
• Well begun is half done. Aristotle 
• In my beginning is my end. T.S. Eliot 
• A good beginning makes a good end. English proverb 
• It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. James Cash Penney

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Remember that the time is never just right   

• Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill 
• Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. Alan Cohen
• People who wait for the “perfect” time to act never take action. Mike Mahler
• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson 
• You have to start before you’re ready. Steven Pressfield 
• Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. William Feather 
• Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self- confident and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen 
• You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. Barbara Sher 
• What if Columbus had been told, “Chris baby, don’t go now. Wait until we’ve solved our No.1 priorities – war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred.” W.I.E.Gates
• If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the right thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before you’ll start your trip. Robert T. Kiyosaki 
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt 
• Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. Cardinal Newman 
• If you wait for that ‘perfect moment’ you’re not going to be very productive. Scott Belsky 
• Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. Doris Lessing 

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If you wait until everything is perfect, you’ll never get started   

• You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going! Mike Litman
• Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die. Shoma Morita 

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Simply do what you can with what you have   

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt 
• If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. Rumi 
• Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. Mary Manin Morrissey 
• Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are. Julia Cameron      

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As you start to walk, the way will appear   

• Go as far as you can see and you will see further. Zig Ziglar 
• Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just the first step. Martin Luther King
• As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. Rumi

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Don’t wait for fear to subside but feel the fear and do it anyway   

• The scariest moment is always just before you start. Stephen King 
• We don’t have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting. Diane Conway 
• Feal the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
• I’ve been afraid every single day of my life, but I’ve gone ahead and done it anyway. Georgia O’Keefe
• To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway. Beverly Smith
• We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. John F. Kennedy
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Don’t put it off for procrastination is the thief of time and dreams   

• 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. Barbara Sher
• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Dyer
• Space we can recover; time never. Napoleon Bonaparte 
• Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. John Updike 
• Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young 
• Delay and procrastination is hateful. Cicero
• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
• Procrastination is the greatest stealer of dreams. Robin Sharma
• The most life-destroying word of all is the word tomorrow. Robert Kiyosaki
• You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin 
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There is no better day to start than today…   

• A year from now you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
• Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone De Beauvoir
• The best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago; and the second best is always today.
• The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’ John F. Kennedy
• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca
• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. Marilyn Grey
• The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. Mike Dooley 

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… for if not now, when?   

• Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now. Wallace D. Wattles 
• If not now, when? Hillel
• The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. Carl Sandburg

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Don’t wait for motivation to strike for it is action that leads to motivation   

• Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. Zig Ziglar
• It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. O.H. Mowrer
• Behavior wags the tail of feelings… We do, then we feel. Feelings follow behavior. David Reynolds
• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. Igor Stravinsky
• Don’t wait for inspiration. Take action! Action generates inspiration. Frank Tibolt
• The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it. John C. Maxwell
• We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt
• The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true — action precedes motivation. You have to “prime the pump” and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day. Robert J. McKain 
• We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre 
• The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation. Steve Backley 
• You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it. Jerome Brunet
• The ordinary wait for the energy to do a task. The exceptional do the task because that’s how they get the energy.  Robin Sharma 
• Do it now, feel better later. Robert Leahy, Ph.D. 
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Take action now and apologise later   

• I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. Julia Cameron
• If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Grace Hopper
• The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand 
• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes. Eleanor Roosevelt 

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If in doubt, act anyway

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Eckhart Tolle 
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No matter what has happened, you can always make a new start   

• No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. Buddha
• Though no-one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.
• When you feel that you have reached the end and you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. Eileen Caddy
• It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. Wendell Berry
• So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. Freeman Dyson
• There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L’Amour
• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Paulo Coelho 
• It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. Jane Fonda 
• The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. Aberjhani
• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. K. Rowling 
• The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. Ralph Blum 
• It’s never to late to make a fresh start

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