Inspirational Quotes Inspiration will get you to take those first steps on your journey. Craig Constantine

Open Preface

It is often said that although inspiration will get you out the door, it won't keep you going for the long haul. That's true.

Also true is the old adage:

If there's somewhere you need to be, start walking.

This little book is all about that one word, "start."

Print it, bookmark it, …whatever it takes. I hope it inspires you to start.

This little book is based upon my enormous, personal collection of quotes. I periodically mine my collection and add pages here for those quotes which are inspiring in the context of helping each of us to start moving.

To learn more about the Movers Mindset project, see https://moversmindset.com/

~ Craig Constantine

Open Play More

Play more. I feel like people are so serious, and it doesn’t take much for people to drop back into the wisdom of a childlike playfulness. If I had to prescribe two things to improve health and happiness in the world, it’d be movement and play. Because you can’t really play without moving, so they’re intertwined.

~ Jason Nemer

Open The Real Fear

These are serious fears. But they’re not the real fear. Not the Master Fear, the Mother of all Fears that’s so close to us that even when we verbalize it we don’t believe it. Fear That We Will Succeed. That we can access the powers we secretly know we possess. That we can become the person we sense in our hearts we truly are.

~ Steven Pressfield

Open Luxury

Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.

~ Justin Welsh

Open One's Own Voice

The fact is one’s own voice is not heard anywhere else. It’s a challenge to be yourself. It makes a lot of courage.

~ Yusef Lateef

Open First Priority

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

~ Robin Norwood

Open Pursue Your Dreams

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Open The Play Instinct

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

~ Carl Jung

Open Conduct of Life

Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence—not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree; Not a ripple upon the surface of shining pool—his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life.

~ Charles Eastman

Open Excellence

What I understand today is that when the Stoics said that there was an opportunity in every obstacle, what they meant was the opportunity to practice virtue. To be a good person despite the bad things that have happened. To do good in the world despite the bad that has befallen you. They were speaking of the idea of arete. Excellence—in all forms.

~ Ryan Holiday

Open Somewhat Higher

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Open Obstacles

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

~ Robert Brault

Open The Best You Can

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

~ Maya Angelou

Open Open to

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

~ Richard Cavett

Open Peculiar Thinking

Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, molds the man.

~ Dugald Stewart

Open Risk

I do not intend to take dangerous chances, both because I have no wish to get hurt and because a fall would stop my experimenting, which I would not like at all. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks.

~ Wilbur Wright

Open Everyone Else

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

~ Haruki Murakami

Open A Good Story

The best arguments in the world won't change a single person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

~ Richard Powers

Open Wisdom

My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.

~ Naval Ravikant

Open Improvement

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Open Lists

To-do lists tend to be long; Success lists are short. One pulls you in all directions; The other aims you in a specific direction. One is a disorganized directory and the other is an organized directive. If a list isn't built around success, then that's not where it takes you. If your to-do list contains everything, then it's probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.

~ Gary Keller

Open Stick

Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there.

~ Josh Billings

Open Room

Giving yourself the time and sapce to think and feel is crucial to your existence. Personhood requires encapsulation. You have to find a way to be yourself before you can share yourself.

~ Jaron Lanier