If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.

 —Winston Churchill

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

—Leo Tolstoy

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

—Will Rogers

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

 —Annie Dillard

Seek the company of those who are seeking the truth and run away from those who think they have found it.

 —J.T. O’Hara

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

 —Japanese proverb

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

—Liz Smith

Do or not do. There is no try.                                                 

   —Yoda

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

—Wayne Gretzky

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

—Samuel Johnson

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

—Thomas Carlyle

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

—Larry McMurtry

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

If everything is under control, you’re going too slow.

—Mario Andretti

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.                                                                         

—Pablo Picasso

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

 —Tom Peters

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

—Abraham Lincoln

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas / Layin’ in the sun, / Talkin’ ‘bout the things / They woulda coulda shoulda done… / But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas / All ran away and hid / From one little did.

—Shel Silverstein