Quotes About Action

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Men expect too much, do too little.

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.