Top 100 Inspirational Quotes on Action and Success | Motispiker

Everyone has dreams, ideas, or goals—but what separates the dreamers from the achievers is one word: action. You can read, plan, and prepare forever, but until you take that first step, nothing truly begins. Hesitation is often the greatest obstacle.

We have picked 100 most powerful quotes on action and success to motivate you to start now, keep going, and never stop doing. You may be working toward a personal goal, building a business, or simply trying to get unstuck, these words will remind you that success is not found in thoughts. It’s born in movement.

So take a deep breath, and get ready to be inspired by these words that have moved generations into greatness.

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats

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

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma

“It’s easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than think yourself into a new way of acting.” – Jerry Sternin

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” – Eva Young

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ideas are worthless until you get them out of your head and see what they can do.” – Unknown

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t talk, just act. Don’t say, just show. Don’t promise, just prove.” – Unknown

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.” – Conrad Hilton

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“The distance between dreams and reality is called action.” – Unknown

#2: Quotes About Taking Initiative

“Stop waiting for things to happen. Go out and make them happen.” – Unknown

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – George Bernard Shaw

“He who hesitates is lost.” – Proverb

“Never confuse motion with action.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Jung

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

“Actions speak louder than words.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.” – Dorothea Brande

“Doing nothing is a decision too—it’s just not a productive one.” – Unknown

“Don’t let fear decide your future.” – Shalane Flanagan

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu

“The world belongs to the energetic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to your thinking is hardest.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon

“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” – Lewis Cass

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton

“The best way to lead is by example.” – John Wooden

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” – Napoleon Hill

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” – Confucius

“You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.” – Robyn Benincasa

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart“Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results.” – Unknown

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

“Action is eloquence.” – William Shakespeare

“Good leaders inspire others to take action.” – John Maxwell

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“To lead people, walk beside them.” – Lao Tzu

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A man of action is a man of power.” – Unknown“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Action is the key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown

“Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.” – Dale Carnegie

“Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.” – Unknown

“Your dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

“The key to success is to start before you’re ready.” – Marie Forleo

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James

“You don’t get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.” – Mike Hawkins

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Sean Patrick Flanery

“The way to get ahead is to start now.” – William Feather

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown

“Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture.” – Vaclav Havel

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” – Peter Marshall

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” – Roy L. Smith

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford“Act now. Sometimes later becomes never.” – Unknown

#5: Quotes About Change and Courage

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – Barack Obama

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

“It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.” – Dalai Lama

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter Drucker

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts

“Act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Dorothea Brande