Permalink: Mark Twain
The maxim is standard in American business and motivational writing, where it stands in for the observation that plans rarely start themselves. Its authorship has been investigated repeatedly without the claim being confirmed.
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.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect.
It is not what you know that matters, but what you do with what you know.
He who has the courage to do wrong is the one who is afraid of nothing.
Some people see the world as it is and ask why. I dream of the world as it could be and ask why not.
Do not aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to fail.