Quotes About Action

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

Let every man look before he leaps.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.