Top 200 Action Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.”

— Napoleon Hill

52. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”

— Jocko Willink

53. “Life is for participating, not for spectating.”

— Kathrine Switzer

54. “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”

— Mario Andretti

55. “Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up.”

— Anonymous

56. “Your “I CAN” is more important than your IQ.”

— Robin S. Sharma

57. “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

— Nolan Bushnell

58. “Ignore the noise, focus on your work.”

— Anonymous

59. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

60. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

61. “Work hard, have fun and make history.”

— Jeff Bezos

62. “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

63. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

— Tim Ferriss

64. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

65. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

66. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

— Bruce Lee

67. “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.”

— Steve Jobs

68. “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

— Pearl S. Buck

69. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

— Elon Musk

70. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

— C.G. Jung

71. “Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”

— Albert Camus

72. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

73. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

— Richard Branson

74. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

75. “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

76. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”

— Zig Ziglar

77. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

78. “We will either find a way or make one.”

— Hannibal

79. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

80. “For things to change, you have to change.”

— Jim Rohn

81. “Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.”

— John Piper

82. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

— Rumi

83. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

84. “What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius

85. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”

— Kevin Ngo

86. “An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”

— Immanuel Kant

87. “Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.”

— Mark Cuban

88. “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”

— Jim Rohn

89. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

— Elbert Hubbard

90. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.”

— Jim Rohn

91. “Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

— Napoleon Hill

92. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

93. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

— John C. Maxwell

94. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

95. “Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.”

— Christopher Hitchens

96. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

— Stephen King

97. “Impossible is nothing.”

— Muhammad Ali

98. “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

99. “Your life only gets better when you get better.”

— Brian Tracy

100. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas A. Edison