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Quotes About Action

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
~ Steven Pressfield
According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.
~ Yajnavalkya
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
~ Confucius
Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
~ Donnie Yen
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
~ Auguste Rodin
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
~ B. C. Forbes
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
~ Bernard Baruch
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
~ Bodhidharma
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
~ Cesare Pavese
Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.
~ Dennis Rainey
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
~ George R. R. Martin
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
~ Herbert Newton Casson
Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.
~ Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.
~ John J. McCloy
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
~ Joseph Lancaster
Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.
~ Napoleon Hill
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
~ Pope Francis