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Quotes About Action

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you're afraid of, go after it.
~ Travis Kalanick
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
~ John McCain
We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.
~ Kumar Sangakkara
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
~ Dale Carnegie
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.
~ Mark Messier
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
~ Meg Cabot
Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.
~ James L. Farmer, Jr.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
~ Unknown
Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
~ Bill Crawford
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
~ Chris Evans
Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.
~ Unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.
~ Unknown
Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.
~ John C. Maxwell
I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.
~ Will Smith
Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
~ John Wooden
The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
~ Éliphas Lévi
I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
~ Tim Ferriss
Don't make decisions based on the fear.
~ Jay-Z
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
~ Freya Stark
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~ Douglas Horton
Do what you fear and your fear will die.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
~ Martin Freeman