Quotes About Action

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.