77 Motivational Action Quotes

In the pursuit of our goals, it's often the words of wisdom and encouragement that propel us forward. Whether you're on the cusp of a new venture, facing the inevitable hurdles along your path, or simply in need of a boost to reignite your passion, motivational action quotes can be the catalyst for change. These powerful statements and insights from thinkers and leaders across the globe serve as reminders of our potential and the mindset required to turn dreams into reality. In this collection, we've gathered 77 of the most inspiring quotes that are sure to spark momentum and inspire you to take meaningful action. Let these words be the fuel to your fire as you embark on your journey to success.

1. “Never confuse Motion with Action.” - Benjamin Franklin

2. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

3. “The future depends on what you do today.” - Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

5. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]” - Karl Marx

6. “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” - Kurt Vonnegut

7. “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

8. “Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen” - Horace Mann

9. “Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.” - Carl Hiaasen

10. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” - Benjamin Disraeli

11. “Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.” - Steve Maraboli

12. “Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.” - Steve Maraboli

13. “Change is the parent of progress.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.” - Steve Maraboli

15. “As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.” - Steve Maraboli

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

17. “I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” - Steve Maraboli

18. “Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.” - Steve Maraboli

19. “Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!” - Steve Maraboli

21. “Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.” - Hermann Hesse

22. “[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.

23. “In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.” - Nicholas Sparks

24. “A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.” - Ayn Rand

25. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

26. “You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.” - Sri Ramakrishna

28. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” - Joseph Campbell

29. “I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged a bell. Nobody came out. Wrong signal, so I did two bell rings. No response prompted me to tap out a series of bell rings.” - Ed Lynskey

30. “Kitty need's a tounge bath” - Jeaniene Frost

31. “Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.” - Steve Maraboli

32. “Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.” - Steve Maraboli

33. “You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.” - Steve Maraboli

34. “God is the composer; you are the song.” - Steve Maraboli

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

36. “The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.” - Steve Maraboli

37. “There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.” - Charles Williams

38. “There's no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose!” - Kristi Bowman

39. “Creation is bringing potential into being, bringing inspiration into action. Inspiration and action are nothing when they are apart. Inspiration feels like a great a wondrous thing, but if it is not manifested, it is as if it never existed. Likewise, action without inspiration has no purpose. It is only when they are together as one that they are truly something.” - Kristi Bowman

40. “If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.” - T.F. Hodge

41. “Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?” - T.F. Hodge

42. “My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.” - Shannon Alder

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

44. “So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.” - Mike Norton

45. “Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.” - Neil Gaiman

46. “Favorite Quotations.I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it. It's not over till it's over. Imagination is everything. All life is an experiment. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.” - Pat Frayne

47. “Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something."The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."Olivier frowned. "So?""Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.""What?""I do believe it is wrong.” - Iain Pears

48. “Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.” - Ludwig Von Mises

49. “I huffed out a deep breath. “It’s something huge, isn’t it?” Beezle nodded. “Yup.” There was a sound of several limbs splashing in the water. “Is it all squishy and tentacly?” “Yup.” “I hate my life,” I said, and as I turned I conjured a ball of nightfire and threw it.” - Christina Henry

50. “Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it.” - Priya Ardis

51. “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

52. “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” - Williams James

53. “With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.” - Mollie Marti

54. “There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

55. “It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance!” - Iris Eshel

56. “You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.” - Orrin Woodward

57. “We are limited only by our unwillingness to take action.” - Steven Redhead

58. “CHANGE: Don’t just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don’t just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don’t just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli” - Steve Maraboli

59. “Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.” - Amit Abraham

60. “It’s very difficult to follow our dreams, but it’s even more difficult to forget them.” - Rahul Rampal

61. “If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you” - Arun D. Ellis

62. “Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.” - Steve Maraboli

63. “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

64. “We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.” - Rivera Sun

65. “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” - Bryant McGill

66. “It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.” - Bryant McGill

67. “Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.” - Orrin Woodward

68. “Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.” - Lynn Blackmar

69. “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

70. “I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.” - Jasper Fforde

71. “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” - Steve Maraboli

72. “What are you waiting for? How long will you keep waiting? Don’t sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want.” - Steve Maraboli

73. “When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.” - Steve Maraboli

74. “There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more.” - Israelmore Ayivor

75. “We must let our every act be out of love, and for the greater good of all.” - Bryant McGill

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

77. “It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.” - Lorii Myers