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Quotes About Action

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
~ Oswald Mosley
When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~ P. T. Barnum
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
~ Jean Monnet
I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.
~ Tom Platz
How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?
~ Shane Claiborne
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
~ Nikola Tesla
The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.
~ Greg Laurie
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
~ Boris Spassky
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
~ Paulo Freire
Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.
~ Edward Bernays
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday
~ J. Cole
You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window.
~ Cassandra Clare
Men make their own history
~ Karl Marx
Men should not petition for rights, but take them
~ Thomas Paine
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
~ Thomas Sowell
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
~ Boris Pasternak
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.
~ Jamie Oliver
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
~ Saint Augustine