Erin Morgenstern Quotes

There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

In order to be something, you must do something.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

The world belongs to those who show up.

I may not be able to do it but I’ll die trying.

The future belongs to those who change it.

You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.