Quotes About Action

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Violence is fun, man.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.