The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty…

With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not…

— Paul Levine

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the…

— Lord Chesterfield

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

— Elbert Hubbard

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

— Luc de Clapiers

Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

— Bertrand Russell

“If a man acts in a purely mechanical way, reacting to external demands or instruction rather than in ways determined by his own interests…

— Noam Chomsky

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

— Bhagat Singh

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

As man acts, God reacts.

— Baal Shem Tov

“The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”

— Joseph Hansen

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

— Edmund Burke

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

— Confucius

“People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one…

— Robin Hobb

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

— Louis L'Amour