32 Inspirational Quotes On Taking Action

In the fast-paced world we live in today, it's easy to get caught up in endless planning and dreaming without ever taking the first step toward turning those visions into reality. Whether it’s launching a business, starting a new hobby, or making a lifestyle change, the true catalyst for success lies in the action we take. Inspirational quotes can serve as powerful reminders of the importance of not just thinking about our goals, but actively pursuing them. In this post, we’ve curated a collection of the top 32 quotes that inspire and motivate us to take that vital step toward achieving our dreams. Let these words be the spark that ignites your journey to action.

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

2. “Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.” - Kurt Vonnegut

3. “Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.” - Richard Bach

4. “Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.” - Vera Nazarian

5. “to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.” - Stephen R. Covey

6. “Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.” - Zig Ziglar

7. “If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.” - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

8. “By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.” - Sharon E. Rainey

9. “The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind with Apache and Lupe. We barricaded the door with the rug and started bailing water out the window. Mother came back and begged us to go pray with her on the hilltop. "To heck with praying!" I shouted. "Bail, dammit, bail!"Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasphemy, and I was a little shocked at it myself, but with the water rising so fast, the situation was dire. We had lit the kerosene lamp, and we could see the walls of the dugout were beginning to sag inward. If Mom had pitched in and helped, there was a chance we might have been able to save the dugout - not a good chance, but a fighting chance. Apache and Lupe and I couldn't do it on our own, though, and when the ceiling started to cave, we grabbed Mom's walnut headboard and pulled it through the door just as the dugout collapsed in on itself, burying everything.Afterward, I was pretty aggravated with Mom. She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail - the gumption to try to save ourselves - isn't that what he wanted us to do?” - Jeannette Walls

10. “Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.” - Toba Beta

11. “What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.” - Pablo Picasso

12. “But I know that in order to get to the end of a thing, one must start at the beginning.” - Michelle Zink

13. “Are you doing life or are you living?” - Dale Forehand

14. “Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.” - Kingsley Amis

15. “Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.” - William Shakespeare

16. “Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.” - Steve Chandler

17. “What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.” - Russell Banks

18. “He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.” - Michael Morpurgo

19. “You can't do everything but you can do something!” - Jeff Dixon

20. “I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a date, or recalling laughter at my expense when I attempted some silly challenge.  Those things simply prove that I lived life.  What I do mind, however, is looking back on the lost opportunities where imagined concerns kept me from even trying—lose or win.  I've learned that there is no regret in a brave attempt, only in cowering to fear.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

21. “The fundamental problem here is the continued over-identification with doing. By attempting to “do” The Leap, the practitioner is attempting the impossible (as doing and being point to two different realms). Thus far your training has been largely if not entirely immersed in the relative domain. With Being, your training is stepping beyond this domain into the transcendent. Fundamentally, there is nothing you can “do” to “be.” - McNamara, Robert

22. “But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.” - Glenda Millard

23. “She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.” - Will Schwalbe

24. “You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

25. “But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.” - Alice Koller

26. “I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.” - Myles Horton

27. “Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.” - Sergio De La Pava

28. “I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.” - A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

29. “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.” - Gloria Whelan

30. “There is no try. There is only do.” - John Green

31. “She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.” - Junot Diaz

32. “So dumb to say, I won’t while doing it.” - M.F. Moonzajer