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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -- Henri Bergson
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. -- Sallust
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
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
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. -- James A. Baldwin
Donald Trump is man of action. -- Kellyanne Conway
The perfect man of action, is the suicide. --
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. -- Oscar Wilde
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. -- Vladimir Lenin
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action. -- Georges Clemenceau
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. -- Franz Kafka
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. -- Franz Kafka
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous. -- Richard M. Nixon
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. -- Joseph Conrad
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
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
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. -- Georges Clemenceau
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
I am a man of action, like a statue of a guy running. In business, when a salesman and a customer race each other, both win. -- Jarod Kintz
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
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows. -- Cesare Pavese
When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! -- Andrea Bocelli
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. -- Giorgos Seferis
In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God. -- Hermann Goring
The test of any man lies in action. -- Pindar
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. -- Arthur Helps
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman. -- Hattie McDaniel
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. -- Thomas Carlyle
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. -- John Webster
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. -- Claude Adrien Helvétius
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. -- Albert Einstein
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. -- John Mason Brown
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
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people. -- John Selden
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. -- Apollonius of Tyana
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. -- Paul de Man
I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear. -- Action Bronson
The end of man is action. -- Thomas Carlyle
A man is the origin of his action. -- Aristotle
The purpose of man is in action not thought. -- Thomas Carlyle
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery. -- Victor Hugo
A man is not good or bad for one action. -- Thomas Fuller
A man full of hope will be full of action. -- Thomas Brooks
A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. -- Philip Sidney
Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man. -- Karen Hawkins
Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action. -- David O. McKay
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. -- Henry Miller
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect. -- Aristotle
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. -- Confucius
Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think. -- Swami Vivekananda
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action. -- Joseph Addison
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. -- Gogen Yamaguchi
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man. -- Epictetus
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. -- Claude Adrien Helvétius
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. -- Leo Tolstoy
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts. -- Joseph Alsop
No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action. -- Khem Veasna
No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. -- Michelene Wandor
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. -- Vita Sackville-West
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. -- Bertrand Russell
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. -- James Harrington
An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation. -- Even Engesland
The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding. -- Dana Gould
An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought or interpretation. -- Even Engesland
An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation. -- Even Engesland
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.' -- James McAvoy
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning. -- Leo Baeck
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. -- Emile M. Cioran
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. -- Robert South
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. -- Francis Kelley
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -- James Russell Lowell
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality. -- Charles Lindbergh
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. -- Albert Camus
The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. -- Bryant H. McGill
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself -- Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. -- Pythagoras
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. -- Mahavira
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action. -- Stendhal
Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action. -- Hans Jonas
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. -- C. S. Lewis
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company. -- Napoleon Hill
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly -- Bhagat Singh
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
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. -- Benjamin Mkapa
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
We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day. -- Curtis Hanson
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. -- Helen Rowland
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards. -- George Santayana
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
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
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
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!' -- Thomas Brooks
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
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
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
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
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
Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme. -- Sivananda
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 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
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
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
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results. -- Thomas Merton
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. -- Abigail Adams
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
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares. -- Anton Szandor LaVey

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