51+ Quotes on Taking Actions, Determination, and Success

Taking action is important if we want to reach our goals and move forward in our lives. Without taking action, our plans and dreams will never become real. Action is the thing that makes our plans and thoughts come true. It helps build momentum, and momentum makes you feel like you've accomplished something and gives you the drive to keep going. It's easy to get stuck in a cycle of overthinking and not making a decision, but taking action helps us break out of that cycle and move forward. By doing something, we open ourselves up to new chances and options that we might not have found otherwise.

Here are few quotes on actions that will help you to build momentum and grow.


Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

If you have an idea, do something with it. If you don't have an idea, do something anyway.
Austin Kleon

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.
Unknown

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.
Richard Feynman

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

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

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it. If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
Unknown

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Bo Bennet

Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.
Roy T. Bennett

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips

Success is not achieved by default, but by design.
Stephen Covey

If you want to change the world, change yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will Rogers

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

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
Eric Thomas

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.
Bob Marley

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Chinese Proverb

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

The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

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

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

Your actions speak louder than words.
Unknown