If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Interpretation
Change requires effort; if you don't make a move, you won't see results.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of taking action and making changes in order to achieve desired outcomes. It suggests that without proactive behavior and a willingness to adapt, one cannot expect external forces to provide assistance or drive progress in their life.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to inspire employees to take initiative.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
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