The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your
own arm. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer. The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Either you run the day or the day runs you. Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to
wish for but to attain. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things
happen. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than
those who try to do nothing and succeed. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with
what happens to him. One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step. The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to
act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel. If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone,
then what am I? And if not now, when? For all sad words of tongue and pen, You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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