Quotes About Action

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

There is no avoidance in delay.

It is brave to be involved

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

It takes courage to push things forward.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.