11 Quotes That Will Transform You Into a Wildly Successful Self-Starter

Don't wait for someone else to come up with the ideas and run with them. You be that person.

While Peter Economy has spent the better part of two decades of his life slugging it out mano a mano in the management trenches, he is now a full-time ghostwriter and best-selling author of more than 85 books -- including Managing for Dummies, Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in Dance Class, and User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product -- with total sales in excess of two million copies. He has also served as associate editor for Leader to Leader for more than 12 years, where he has worked on projects with the likes of Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and many other top management and leadership thinkers. Visit him anytime at petereconomy.com.

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Nothing to it but to do it, as they say. If you're needing some quick motivation to inspire you to start that big project you've been eyeing for months, look no further. Here are 11 quotes that will activate your drive and get you into successful self-starter mode, at a rapid pace.

1. "Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again." -- Og Mandino

2. "I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep." -- Greg Evans

3. "Time and tide wait for no man." -- Geoffrey Chaucer

4. "Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager." -- Susan Sontag

5. "The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." -- Napoleon Hill

6. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -- Francis Bacon  

7. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" -- CS Lewis 

8. "An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." -- Arnold H. Glasgow 

9. "You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw 

10. "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

 11. "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." -- Farrah Gray 

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Published on: Feb 15, 2018

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11 Quotes That Will Transform You Into a Wildly Successful Self-Starter