Get Into Action! A collection of quotations to inspire and motivate.

1. An accumulation of quotations
to stimulate and motivate
gathered by Richard Randolph

2. Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you can.
~ Arthur Ashe

3. The world belongs to the energetic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

5. The only place where success
comes before work is a dictionary.
~ Vidal Sassoon

6. A good plan, violently executed now,
is better than a perfect plan next week.
~ George S. Patton

7. 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

8. You can't build a reputation on
what you are going to do.
~ Henry Ford

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

10. If the wind will not
serve, take to the oars.
~ Latin Proverb

11. He that lives upon hope
will die fasting.
~ Benjamin Franklin

12. 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

13. Well done is better than well said.
~ Benjamin Franklin

14. Whether you think that you can,
or that you can’t,
you are usually right.
~ Henry Ford

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

16. A vision without action is but a dream.
Action without vision is chaos.
But vision with action can change the world.

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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 Adams
October, 1779
in a letter to John Quincy Adams
as he departed Massachusetts for France
with his father John Adams, for the second time.

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