Action Quotations - Quotations

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

"If everything's under control, you're going too slow."
--Mario Andretti
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
--Emily P. Bissell
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
--G. K. Chesterton
"I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to make them happen."
--Winston Churchill
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
--Marie Curie
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
--Edward de Bono
"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something."
--Chauncey Depew
"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."
--Dorothea Dix
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
--Epictetus
Action - Drop of Water
"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
--John Mason Good
"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."
--Karen Horney
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
--Napoleon Hill
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving--we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it-- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
--Oliver W. Holmes
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Do noble things, do not dream them all day long."
--Charles Kingsley
"Have the courage to act instead of react."
--Earlene Larson Jenks
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."
--Samuel Johnson
Ambition - Skiing/Hiking
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
--Stephen Levine
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
--John Locke
"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."
--Fiona Macleod
"As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works."
--John Maxwell
"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
--Mildred McAfee
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older."
--Larry McMurty
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
--John Pierpont Morgan
"Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater."
--Mary Manin Morrissey
"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
--Jawaharlal Nehru
Great Things
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
--Earl Nightingale
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
--Florence Nightingale
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..."
--Marie Beyon Ray
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
--Will Rogers
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
--Will Rogers
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
--Franklin Roosevelt
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water."
--Barbara Sher
"All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' in the sun, Talkin' bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done... But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All ran away and hid From one little did."
--Shel Silverstein
Achievement
"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
--Liz Smith
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
--Margaret Thatcher
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do--do it and let it speak for itself."
--Martin Vanbee
"Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing."
--Lilian Eichler Watson
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
--Thomas J. Watson
"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."
--Carl Weick
"If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens."
--Fay Weldon
"Do or do not. There is no try."
--Yoda
"Action conquers fear."
--Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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