Quotes About Action

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.