Action Quote by Honore de Balzac

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

— Honore de Balzac

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

— David Viscott

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put…

— Cormac McCarthy

It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

— George Santayana

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life…

— William James

A man who has tasted death and has accepted it is a true man of virtue.

— Jeremy Limn

“Death is a concept for fatalists and fools. And dead people.”

— Martin Cosgrove

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

— Pearl S. Buck

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

— Arsene Houssaye

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

— E. W. Howe

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the…

— H. L. Mencken