Quotes About Action

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Man should make himself a lot of good karma.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

A man is the origin of his action.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.