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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

— Rumi

Nothing will work unless you do.

— Maya Angelou

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

— Rumi

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

— Mark Twain

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

— Nelson Mandela

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

— Confucius

It always seems impossible until it's done.

— Nelson Mandela

Whatever you are, be a good one.

— Abraham Lincoln

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

— Mark Twain

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Never give in, never, never, never, never.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Epictetus

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

— Rumi

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

— Jane Austen

If you're going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

— Lao Tzu

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