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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles De Gaulle
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
— Bryant H. McGill
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
— Vita Sackville-West
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He was a thinker, but also a man of action.
— Dan Millman
After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic
— Winston S. Churchill
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
— Georges Clemenceau
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
— Emile M. Cioran
The best achievement of a man is that he converts his ideas into action.
— Frank Underwood
I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.
— Jalpa Williby
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
— John Webster
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.
— Dada Bhagwan
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
— Marc Morial
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
— George Washington
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
Any fool would not be brave
Who takes no heed of this verse
No heroic deed or action save
Any man from Finndragon's curse — Richie Earl
Who takes no heed of this verse
No heroic deed or action save
Any man from Finndragon's curse — Richie Earl
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
— James Harrington
The actions of man's thoughts are similar to the action of a magnet.
— Sunday Adelaja
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
— Dale Carnegie
For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely.
— Melanie Dickerson
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
he was a man of politics and a man of action.
— Stephen Hunter
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of man is action.
— Thomas Carlyle
The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
— William Shakespeare
Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
— Hans Jonas
God performs miracles, but even for a man to walk on water, action is required.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
— W. H. Auden
For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
— Thomas Carlyle
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
— Francis Kelley
The man of fantasy must become the man of action, the adventure of dreams the adventure of life.
— Milan Kundera
How could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.
— Paul Bowles
You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
— Auberon Herbert
There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action.
— Richard Wright
The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.
— Dana Gould
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.
— John Taliaferro
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
— Otto Weininger
Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.
— Courtney Schafer
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
— Mary Renault
The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.
— Richard L. Evans
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
— Woodrow Wilson
To be active is the primary vocation of man.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
— Philip Sidney
Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.
— Sukant Ratnakar
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
— Emma Goldman
Man, sometimes it really sucks being the only sane one on this ship. - Duv Jackson, Gunship
— J.J. Snow
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
— Bertrand Russell
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
— Stendhal
How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
— William Shakespeare
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man.
— John Calvin
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The test of any man lies in action.
— Pindar
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
— Mahavira
We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
— J.J. Snow
War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man is slow because he hesitates
— Lance Conrad
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
— Ayn Rand
He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
Every comforting word is a command from a man of action ...
While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words ... — Sujit Lalwani
While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words ... — Sujit Lalwani
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
— Ayn Rand
Reagan has become the Right's Obama: a man whose every action is to be treated as ipso facto brilliant, perhaps even divinely inspired.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing.
— Salman Rushdie
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
— Raheel Farooq
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
— Saskya Pandita
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
— Leo Baeck
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
— Helen Rowland
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
— Napoleon Hill
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
— John Mason Brown
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
— John Galsworthy
A man is not good or bad for one action.
— Thomas Fuller
A man is the origin of his action.
— Aristotle.
If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.
— Brad Thor
Every man's actions belong to him.
— Ben Harper