Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.  [PDF]
–Peter Drucker

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
–Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do.
–Goethe

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
–Theodore Roosevelt

Action is eloquence. [PDF]
–Shakespeare

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  [PDF]
–Goethe

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually.  One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.  [PDF]
–Rita Mae Brown

When you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t, do.  [PDF]
–Stewart Brand

Face adversity promptly and without flinching, and you will reduce its impact. Never run from anything, and never, ever quit.
–Winston Churchill

One who fears limits his activities.  Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
–Henry Ford

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
–Emerson

Be bold.  If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
–Billie Jean King

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
–Bertrand Russell

Fear takes our freedom away and makes us victims of the powers that surround us.  Fear reveals how deeply our sense of worth has become dependent on our success in the world and on the opinions of others, and how we have become what we do or what others think of us.
–Henri J. M. Nouwen

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something.  People who aren’t taught that become soggy.  [PDF]
–Katherine Hepburn

First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.
–Epictetus

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, we do not see the ones which open for us.
–Alexander G. Bell

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
–Plato

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