Quotes About Action

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

What one man can think, another man can do.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.