Quotes About Action

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way." He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it." Boom. "Correction, they're not headed our way anymore." Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he will slip on board a battleship and silently kill its entire crew with his bare hands before doing an Olympic-qualifying dive into the bay, punching out a few sharks, climbing back into his kayak and paddling back to Australia for a beer.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.

Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.

after that it's just a chase scene.

Maybe we should go back and get their guns," Marlon suggested. "That's how it would work in a video game," Csongor said, which was his way of agreeing.

You're going to fly a radioactive ice ball the size of the Death Star back here just as the shit is hitting the fan—then what?

Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew.