Management development providers GNP publish a monthly set of handy quotable quotes for use in presentations, speeches or training sessions. Arranged into 100 themes including vision, change, leadership, teamwork, communication, motivation and innovation. TrainingZONE has arranged to bring you the quotes on a regular basis. This month, the theme is beginnings.
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (1818-1883)
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no-one could find fault."
John Henry Newman, British religious leader, author (1801-1890)
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet (1749-1832)
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank, German Jewish diarist, concentration camp victim (1929-1945)
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Socrates, Greek philosopher (460-399 BC)
"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
Horace, Roman poet (65-8 BC)
"The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing."
Walt Disney, US artist, film producer (1901-1966)
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist, poet (1803-1882)
"The journey of one thousand miles begins with one step."
Chinese proverb
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