Quotes About Action

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

A man can't just sit around.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

The life of a Repo Man is always intense.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man