Top 100 Quotes About Acting (2024 Update)

1. “Words may inspire but only action creates change.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Action Quotes

2. “All the world’s a stage.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Quality Quotes, Character Quotes

3. “Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Momentum Quotes

4. “Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.”

— Tom Peters

Also featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes, Productivity Quotes, Momentum Quotes

5. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

6. “Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes

7. “Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Action Quotes

8. “The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Productivity Quotes

9. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Choices Quotes, Future Quotes

10. “Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Action Quotes

11. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on them?”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Practice Quotes, Helping Quotes

12. “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Being Yourself Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes

13. “I’m not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Distance Quotes

14. “If you don’t act on life, life will act on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

15. “Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.”

— Ray Bradbury

Also featured in: Moving Forward Quotes

16. “Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Progress Quotes, Momentum Quotes

17. “The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.”

— Napoleon Hill

18. “The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.”

— Steven Pressfield

19. “Clarity comes from action, not thought.”

— Marie Forleo

Also featured in: Moving Forward Quotes, Momentum Quotes

20. “Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Energy Quotes

21. “Ideation without execution is delusion.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Quotes About Ideas

22. “Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.”

— David J. Schwartz

Also featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Fear Quotes

23. “To know and not to do is not to know.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes

24. “A plan without action is not a plan. It’s a speech.”

— T. Boone Pickens

25. “When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions, Procrastination Quotes, Quotes About Facts

26. “I love my job, and I’m a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.”

— Lara Pulver

27. “To be energetic, act energetic.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes, Energy Quotes

28. “The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.”

— Seth Godin

29. “You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.”

— Bhagavad Gita

30. “Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions

31. “The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

32. “It’s not enough to be compassionate. You must act.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Helping Others Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

33. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions, Risk-Taking Quotes

34. “Doubt can only be removed by action.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Doubt Quotes

35. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

— Peter Marshall

Also featured in: Family Quotes

36. “The key to turning dreams into reality is action.”

— Jim Rohn

37. “Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.”

— David J. Schwartz

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes

38. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Responsibility Quotes, Justice Quotes

39. “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

— Jordan Belfort

40. “We can act instead of being acted upon.”

— Stephen R. Covey

41. “Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct Yourself Like the Person You Want to Become.”

— John C. Maxwell

42. “You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.”

— Pope Francis

Also featured in: Helping Others Quotes

43. “Soon is not as good as now.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

44. “It’s not what happens, it’s what you do that determines your future.”

— Jim Rohn

45. “Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”

— Douglas Horton

46. “Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.”

— Brian Tracy

47. “It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Choices Quotes

48. “Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

— Steve Jobs

49. “Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act – act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes

50. “Don’t just talk about it, do it.”

— Ron Kaufman