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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
— Barack Obama
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
— Napoleon Hill
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.
— Roy Bennett
The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.
— Anonymous
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.
— Jane Goodall
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
— Jane Goodall
Plans let past drives the future.
— Jason Fried
You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.
— Jason Fried