Top 200 Action Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Work for a better life as if you’ll live forever, and work for a better end as if you’ll die tomorrow.”

— Imam Ali

152. “Do small things, with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

153. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”

— David Goggins

154. “Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

155. “Act without expectation.”

— Lao Tzu

156. “Strive for progress, not perfection.”

— Anonymous

157. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

— Pope John Paul II

158. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— Stephen Hawking

159. “The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

— Napoleon Hill

160. “I’m going to show you how great I am!”

— Muhammad Ali

161. “Entrepreneurs don’t finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

162. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

163. “Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

164. “The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

— Dale Carnegie

165. “The world is not changed by people who sort of care.”

— Sally Hogshead

166. “Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

— Orison Swett Marden

167. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

168. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

169. “Tomorrow will be too late, it’s now or never.”

— Elvis Presley

170. “If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.”

— Michael Jordan

171. “Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”

— Swami Vivekananda

172. “If you rest, you rust.”

— Helen Hayes

173. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”

— Elbert Hubbard

174. “What gets measured gets improved.”

— Robin S. Sharma

175. “Make time, not excuses.”

— Grant Cardone

176. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

177. “When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

— Maya Angelou

178. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

179. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

180. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

181. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Napoleon Hill

183. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

184. “Plan your work and work your plan.”

— Napoleon Hill

185. “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.”

— Farrah Gray

186. “Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

— Pablo Picasso

187. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

188. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

189. “Screw it. Let's do it.”

— Richard Branson

190. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

— Linus Torvalds

191. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, every day. Greatness is never on discount.”

— Eric Thomas

192. “If not now, when?”

— Eckhart Tolle

193. “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas A. Edison

194. “Opportunities come to pass, not to pause.”

— James Wallace

195. “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

— Muhammad Ali

196. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”

— Elizabeth Kenny

197. “Fortune favours the brave.”

— Latin proverb

198. “Live dangerously.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

199. “Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”

— Swami Vivekananda

200. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

— Unknown