“Doing the thing is far easier than the terror we inflict upon ourselves by stressing over it in our heads. The fastest way out of our fear is through it.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“Action spawns courage, not the other way around.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“Action is the antidote to fear.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you.”

- From WTF?! (Willing to Fail) by Brian Scudamore

“One moment of courage can change your day. One day can change your life. And one life can change the world.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“What's the one action that moves the needle more than 100 other actions? What's the one choice that renders 1000 other choices irrelevant?”

- James Clear

“We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.”

- Zig Ziglar

“You can do nothing about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.”

- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden

“Action beats Anxiety. Motion beats Meditation. Work beats Worry. Success Loves Speed.”

- Craig Ballantyne

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

- Alan Lakein

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly live."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

- William Jennings Bryan

“Here’s one way to approach it: Push the ultimate desired outcome off into an unknowable future horizon then break the big goal down into smaller chunks. Identify THE next most important little domino that needs to get knocked over. Set a challenging but realistic target for THAT goal, then figure out the PROCESS you need to engage in on a daily basis to hit that goal and voila! You’re an instant success as you show up and take the next baby step, remembering to celebrate the small wins as you create a feeling of continuous achievement. Remember: We want that inspiring, jumbo-huge goal to serve as a RUDDER pointing us in the right direction as we practice staying fully engaged in one moment after the other. That’s much better than using our unrealistic goal as a measuring stick that depletes our energy as we worry about why we’re not already at our goal.”

- Brian Johnson, Heroic.us

“If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meeting and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

- W. H. Murray

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We all say that we want to succeed, but sooner or later our level of activity must equal our level of intent. Talking about achievement is one thing; making it happen is something altogether different. Some people seem to take more joy in talking about success than they do in achieving it. It is as though their ritualistic chant about someday lulls them into a false sense of security, and all the things that they should be doing and could be doing on any given day never seem to get done. The consequences of this self-delusion have their own inevitable price. Sooner or later the day will arrive when they will look back with regret at all those things they could have done, and meant to do, but left undone. That is why we must push ourselves in the present to experience the milder pain of discipline. We will all experience one pain or the other—the pain of discipline or the pain of regret—but the difference is that the pain of discipline weighs only ounces while the pain of regret weighs tons.”

- Jim Rohn