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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. — Vladimir Lenin

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. — Herodotus

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

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

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

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. — Michelene Wandor

The best achievement of a man is that he converts his ideas into action. — Frank Underwood

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. — Sallust

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.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action. — David O. McKay

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 samurai was essentially a man of action. — Inazo Nitobe

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Hamlet: the agony of the bookworm forced to be a man of action. — Marty Rubin

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action. — Hans Jonas

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

You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know. — Stacy Buck

The purpose of man is in action not thought. — Thomas Carlyle

The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes
use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action. — Benito Perez Galdos

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man. — Epictetus

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

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. — Oscar Wilde

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

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action. — Joseph Addison

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

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon. — Thomas Hood

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

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

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 brave
Who 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

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

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