It is much easier to start something than to finish it.
Better never begin; once begun, better finish.
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.
If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.
Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.
Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
Not to decide is to decide.
Be quick but do not hurry.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.
