Quotes About Action

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.