Erin Morgenstern Quotes

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

Spend your energy on things that make a difference.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

Memorize the selfstarter DO IT NOW! DO IT NOW! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

The world will not wait for us.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.