Quotes About Action

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

A man should be what he can do.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

Good appearance doesn't make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.