Welcome to Act Quotes, a curated collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes on the theme of action. Throughout history, individuals from all walks of life have emphasized the importance of taking action, whether it’s in pursuit of personal growth, societal change, or achieving one’s dreams. From philosophers and activists to entrepreneurs and artists, the wisdom encapsulated in these quotes serves as both guidance and motivation for those seeking to make a difference in the world.
Action, often considered the catalyst for progress and success, is a fundamental principle woven into the fabric of human existence. As the saying goes, actions speak louder than words, highlighting the transformative power of deeds over mere intentions. Whether it’s overcoming obstacles, seizing opportunities, or standing up for what’s right, the quotes featured here encapsulate the essence of action in its various forms and manifestations. With each word resonating with wisdom and insight, they serve as a reminder of the limitless potential that lies within each individual to effect change and leave a lasting impact on the world. So without further ado, let these quotes on action inspire, motivate, and propel you toward your goals and aspirations.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. Barbara De Angelis
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. Jodi Picoult
Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline. Jocko Willink
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we’re going down the tube. Joan Rivers
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future. Thomas Sankara
Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens. Samuel Gompers
So many people treat you like you’re a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. Gerard Way
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Huxley
You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react. Bonnie Hammer
There is nothing we cannot do for an athlete. If a guy wants to write a book, great. If he wants to be a ‘Fortnite’ champion, great. If he wants to act, great. He wants to buy a surfboard company? Fantastic. There is nothing we cannot do for the modern athlete. Rich Paul
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’ Shaquille O’Neal
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway. Barack Obama
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act. Leonard Cohen
Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean-Paul Sartre
Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. Keanu Reeves
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. Nikita Khrushchev
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
To love is to act. Victor Hugo
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass! Paul J. Meyer
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. Monica Johnson
Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are. Nick Saban
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton
If we don’t act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft. Bill Nelson
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they’re my best friends. Joe Rogan
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy. Leslie Odom, Jr.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. Abraham Lincoln
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Samuel Johnson
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. Ronald Reagan
My uncle was an Elvis impersonator – his name was Perry, and he went by ‘Elvis Perry’ – and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act. Ryan Gosling
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Unknown
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. Blaise Pascal
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person. Nelson Mandela
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. Andrew Carnegie
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. Kwame Nkrumah
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals
When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up. Mitski
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. Gary Ryan Blair
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Joseph Schwartz
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. Samuel Ullman
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles R. Swindoll
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. Cesar Chavez
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. Corrie Ten Boom
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. T. E. Lawrence
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. Charles Spurgeon
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome
Comparison is an act of violence against the self. Iyanla Vanzant
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao Tzu
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. B. F. Skinner
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. Saint Teresa of Avila
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it. Bear Grylls
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Shigeru Miyamoto
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. James Allen
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act! Alfred A. Montapert
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that. Carlos Castaneda
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall
Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come. Greta Thunburg
Act like you expect to get into the end zone. Christopher Morley
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson
The simple act of caring is heroic. Edward Albert
Think before you act and act on what you believe. Bo Bennett
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. Ida B. Wells
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans. Salman Khan
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. Alexander Pope
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. George Orwell
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can. Lil Wayne
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Will Durant
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Paulo Coelho
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. Edwin Louis Cole
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Princess Diana