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.
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail!
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words βToo Lateβ.
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