Nine Quotes for Bootstrappers on Taking Action

“Don’t wait until you feel like doing something.”
Julie Fast

“Never mind that your actions seem hopeless. Act anyway, for you have a greater ability to act than to judge hopelessness.”
Robert Brault

"I believe in the soul. Furthermore, I believe it is prompt accountability for one's choices, a willing acceptance of responsibility for one's thoughts, behavior, and actions that makes it powerful."
Alice Walker

"Young people searching for their “real self” must learn that the real self is not something one finds as much as it is something one makes; and it is one’s daily actions that shape the inner personality far more permanently than any amount of introspection or intellection."
Sydney J. Harris

"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967

"The future is an illusion, all change is happening now."
Marcelo Rinesi

"If you want to be instrumental in building something great, you must sign up for perpetually striving to meet the customer where the customer wants to be. It's work, a lot of it."
Moe Arnaiz

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
Peter Marshall

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
Jawaharlal Nehru

I am not sure this is true, at least when it comes to summoning the need for a creative solution. Most of my adventures start with, "How hard could it be?"

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