Quotes About Action

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

All men of action are dreamers.

As man acts, God reacts.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

Boys do what they can; men do what they want

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.