Action

Quotes on action.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
- Dalai Lama

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
- Bruce Barton