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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
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual ... the humility of the spirit.
— Richard P. Feynman
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
— William Carlos Williams
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
— Georges Clemenceau
Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.
— William MacLeod Raine
I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza
— Lion Feuchtwanger
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
— Adam Baldwin
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
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
— Katee Sackhoff
All men of action are dreamers.
— James Huneker
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
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
— Bennie Thompson
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
— Henri Bergson
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
— Fernando Pessoa
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
— George Bernard Shaw
More men had died because their commander wavered in his action, too afraid of making the wrong decision to make any,
— Evan Currie
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
— George Washington
Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.
— Eric Hoffer
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
— Honore De Balzac
We are men of action. Lies do not become us. Westley — William Goldman
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
— Aphra Behn
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
— Charles De Gaulle
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
— Kenneth Clark
Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
— Oscar Wilde
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
— Honore De Balzac
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
— Thomas Brooks
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.
— Swami Vivekananda
A man full of hope will be full of action.
— Thomas Brooks
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
— Thomas Jefferson
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
— Thomas Browne
Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
— Jules Verne
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
— George S. Clason
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
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
— Andre Gide
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
— Herbert Newton Casson
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
— Bhagat Singh
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
— Jack Donovan
Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men.
— W. Somerset Maugham
She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
— Henry James
Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.
— Michael Ignatieff
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
— George Washington
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
— Leo Baeck
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
— Jose Marti
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
— Kwame Nkrumah
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
— Napoleon Hill
A man is the origin of his action.
— Aristotle.
To be active is the primary vocation of man.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
— Paulo Freire
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
— Philip Sidney
The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this
— Seth Tucker
Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
— Oswald Mosley
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
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
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
— Heinrich Heine
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
These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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 true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists
— W. H. Auden
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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 successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
— Joseph Jacobs
A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
— Eric Hoffer
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
— Dale Carnegie
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— Thomas Aquinas
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