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The proverb comes from hunting, where the bird that moves first is the one that feeds. Its later use in general speech keeps the image and drops the hunt, which is how it ends up standing for starting early rather than working harder.
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
It is not what you know that matters, but what you do with what you know.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you fight for something, the greater you feel when you achieve it.