Quotes About Action

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

Every day do something that frightens you.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.