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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
— Vladimir Lenin
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
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
— Vita Sackville-West
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
— Jeremy Renner
A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
— Jules Verne
He was a thinker, but also a man of action.
— Dan Millman
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
— William Carlos Williams
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
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
— Richard M. Nixon
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
— Elizabeth Wordsworth
The best achievement of a man is that he converts his ideas into action.
— Frank Underwood
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
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A samurai was essentially a man of action.
— Inazo Nitobe
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
— Francis Kelley
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
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
The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makesuse of its heavenly gifts is the man of action. — Benito Perez Galdos
The man of fantasy must become the man of action, the adventure of dreams the adventure of life.
— Milan Kundera
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
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
— Richard Savage
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
— Aaron Paul
Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.
— Stephen Colbert
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
— Bhagat Singh
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
— Robert South
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
— Arthur Helps
Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.
— John Ciardi
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
— Georges Clemenceau
Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?
— John Cheever
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
— Michael Kimmel
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Napoleon Hill
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.
— D.H. Lawrence
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
— William Shakespeare
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
— Charles De Gaulle
Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.
— Sukant Ratnakar
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
War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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 the origin of his action.
— Aristotle.
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
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
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
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
— Bertrand Russell
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
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
We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
— J.J. Snow
he was a man of politics and a man of action.
— Stephen Hunter
Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.
— John Taliaferro
Any fool would not be braveWho takes no heed of this verse
No heroic deed or action save
Any man from Finndragon's curse — Richie Earl
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
How could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.
— Paul Bowles
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
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of man is action.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely.
— Melanie Dickerson
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
— James Harrington
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
— Leo Baeck
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
