Quotes About Action

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

I always loved Ponch, man. It was so much fun to be him, to put on my duds and get on that bike and bust the bad guys and help out the kids. And get the babes.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.