Top 200 Taking Action Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

— Bruce Lee

152. “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

— Swami Vivekananda

153. “Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.”

— Casey Neistat

154. “Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

155. “The book you don't read can't help.”

— Jim Rohn

156. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

— Conrad Hilton

157. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

158. “A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

— Henry David Thoreau

159. “A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

— Chanakya

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

— Sally Hogshead

161. “Success is a decision, not a gift.”

— Steve Backley

162. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Ray Bradbury

164. “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”

— Bill Gates

165. “Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

166. “If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”

— Dale Carnegie

167. “If you rest, you rust.”

— Helen Hayes

168. “If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing.”

— Les Brown

169. “Don’t ever go with the flow. Be the flow.”

— Jay-Z

170. “If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.”

— T. Harv Eker

171. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”

— John F. Kennedy

172. “The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

174. “If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.”

— Kobe Bryant

175. “Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.”

— Ray Lewis

176. “Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.”

— Bob Proctor

177. “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

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

— Steven Pressfield

179. “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

180. “Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.”

— Napoleon Hill

181. “Some people worry. Others prepare.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

182. “On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.”

— Nipsey Hussle

183. “While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

— Seneca the Younger

184. “I say, ‘Why not’ to everything.”

— Russell Westbrook

185. “You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.”

— Stephen R. Covey

186. “We don’t have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.”

— Brené Brown

187. “It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

188. “Go where no one’s gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

189. “I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”

— Elon Musk

190. “Fear depends on time for its strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.”

— Grant Cardone

191. “Transformation isn’t a future event, it’s a present day activity.”

— Jillian Michaels

192. “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses – only results.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

193. “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.

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

— Farrah Gray

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

— Suzy Kassem

196. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

197. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

198. “If not now, when?”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Elizabeth Kenny

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

— Pablo Picasso