GET INTO ACTION!

An accumulation of quotationsto stimulate and motivate

gathered by Richard Randolph

Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Do what you can. ~ Arthur Ashe

The world belongs to the energetic.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

~ Vidal Sassoon

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

~ George S. Patton

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins… The first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all.

~ Carl Icahn

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

~ Henry Ford

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

~ Frank Tibolt

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

~ Latin Proverb

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

~ Benjamin Franklin

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the television and treat life as if it goes on forever.

~ Philip Adams

Well done is better than well said.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Whether you think that you can,

or that you can’t,

you are usually right. ~ Henry Ford

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

~ Thomas Carlyle

A vision without action is but a dream.

Action without vision is chaos.

But vision with action can change the world.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

~ Christopher Reeve

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

~ Phillips Brooks, US Episcopal bishop

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Abigail AdamsOctober, 1779

in a letter to John Quincy Adamsas he departed Massachusetts for France

with his father John Adams, for the second time.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier