Top 200 Taking Action Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

102. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”

— John Burroughs

103. “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

— Jack London

104. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Henry Ford

105. “If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.”

— Mel Robbins

106. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

— Bill Bradley

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

— C.G. Jung

108. “A little less conversation, a little more action please.”

— Elvis Presley

109. “Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.”

— Bruce Lee

110. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

— Victor Kiam

111. “Be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.”

— Tim Ferriss

112. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Simon Sinek

114. “You either act on ideas or set them free. You don’t dwell on them.”

— Casey Neistat

115. “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

116. “A vision and strategy aren’t enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.”

— Richard M. Kovacevich

117. “Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.”

— Tim Ferriss

118. “Complexity is the enemy of execution!”

— Tony Robbins

119. “The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.”

— Steve Pavlina

120. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie

121. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”

— Stephen Richards

122. “Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.”

— John C. Maxwell

123. “Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

124. “Always do whatever’s next.”

— George Carlin

125. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

126. “Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”

— Scott Adams

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

— Tony Robbins

128. “Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

— Jim Rohn

129. “As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.”

— Grant Cardone

130. “Start where you are, use what you have.”

— Arthur Ashe

131. “The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”

— Steve Maraboli

132. “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Napoleon Hill

134. “Work until your brain forgets and your body remembers.”

— Anonymous

135. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”

— Dawson Trotman

136. “Excuses sound best to the person that’s making ’em up!”

— Tyrese Gibson

137. “Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”

— William James

138. “I always finish what I start.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Elvis Presley

140. “Every risk is worth taking as long as it’s for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.”

— Richard Branson

141. “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

— Tom Peters

142. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

— Andy Warhol

143. “Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.”

— Ray Dalio

144. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

— Winston Churchill

145. “Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.”

— John C. Maxwell

146. “Your life is too important to give it to distractions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

147. “The most important actions are never comfortable.”

— Tim Ferriss

148. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

— John F. Kennedy

149. “Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”

— Jim Rohn

150. “If you want to predict the future, create it.”

— Peter F. Drucker