Quotes About Action

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.