Action

Quotes on action.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- Rosa Parks

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
- Og Mandino

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- Og Mandino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
- Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- Buddha