36 Action-Inspiring Quotes

In a world brimming with distractions and challenges, finding the motivation to take decisive action can often feel like an uphill battle. Words have the power to inspire, uplift, and ignite the passion within us to move forward and conquer our dreams. This carefully curated collection of the top 36 action-inspiring quotes is designed to provide that spark of inspiration you need. Whether you’re seeking the courage to start a new venture or the motivation to continue your current journey, these quotes will serve as powerful reminders of your potential and capability. Dive in and let these words of wisdom propel you towards action and achievement.

1. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

2. “What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” - Edward Abbey

3. “There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.” - Paulo Coelho

4. “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” - Edward Abbey

5. “We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.” - Al Gore

6. “Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

7. “Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?” - Shaun Tan

8. “Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.” - Steve Maraboli

9. “Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!” - Steve Maraboli

10. “Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change.” - Steve Maraboli

11. “NEVER be surprised by your own success!” - Steve Maraboli

12. “Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.” - Steve Maraboli

13. “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success!” - Steve Maraboli

15. “Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.” - Steve Maraboli

16. “Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.” - Steve Maraboli

17. “[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.” - CrimethInc.

18. “I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.” - Lara Adrian

19. “If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.” - William Sloane Coffin

21. “Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

22. “The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.” - Amy Lignor

23. “Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.” - T.F. Hodge

24. “Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.” - Priya Ardis

25. “Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.” - Mollie Marti

26. “God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.” - Melina Marchetta

27. “I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.” - Priya Ardis

28. “You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.” - Orrin Woodward

29. “Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.” - Martin Hopkins

30. “A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.” - Maxwell Maltz

31. “Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.” - Shannon L. Alder

32. “Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.” - Orrin Woodward

33. “THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!” - Rick Riordan

34. “TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.” - Napoleon Hill

35. “Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” - Sarah Addison Allen

36. “For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.” - Lorii Myers