Quotes About Action

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.