Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs

Many people who could benefit from insulin are fearful of injections, so they delay treatment five years or 10 years, placing them at risk for serious complications.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.