Top 200 Taking Action Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.”

— Napoleon Hill

52. “If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

— Terry Pratchett

53. “Free time is the enemy of progress.”

— Casey Neistat

54. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.”

— Charles Bukowski

55. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

56. “An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.”

— Tim Ferriss

57. “It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

58. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

59. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens

60. “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

— Gary W. Keller

61. “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”

— Napoleon Hill

62. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”

— Simon Sinek

63. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

— Farrah Gray

64. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

— Winston Churchill

65. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

— Drew Houston

66. “Don’t waste a good mistake, learn from it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

67. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”

— Dale Carnegie

68. “Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is power.”

— Eric Thomas

69. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

70. “It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.”

— Marcus Aurelius

71. “My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will be.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Jim Rohn

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

— Robin S. Sharma

74. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

— Louis L'Amour

75. “Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”

— Og Mandino

76. “Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

77. “The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

78. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

79. “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”

— Elon Musk

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

— Marcus Aurelius

81. “As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.”

— Casey Neistat

82. “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn’t have an opportunity.”

— Bob Parsons

83. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”

— Winston Churchill

84. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.”

— Jeff Bezos

85. “Get out of your own way. Often, we’re our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

86. “Activity leads to productivity.”

— Jim Rohn

87. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

— Stephen R. Covey

88. “Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.”

— Robin S. Sharma

89. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. “Enough is enough and it’s time for a change.”

— Owen Hart

91. “I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.”

— Conor McGregor

92. “You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”

— Abdul Kalam

93. “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

94. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

— Aristotle

95. “Imagination means nothing without doing.”

— Charlie Chaplin

96. “The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”

— Simon Sinek

97. “Go forth and set the world on fire.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

98. “Your comfort zone is your danger zone.”

— Greg Plitt

99. “The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive. It’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.”

— Casey Neistat

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

— Nolan Bushnell