When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.

Tin Cup

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have anything in the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Toni Cade Bambera

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction.

Matthew Burton

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Mark Twain

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.

George S. Patton

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

  Dr. Robert Schuller

It is easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

Al Franken

Nothing happens until I make it happen.

Scott Wilson

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

Abigail Adams

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll