Action Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

— Iain Pears

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little…

— Robert Boyle

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

— Friedrich Schiller

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no…

— Roger L'Estrange

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

— George Washington

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure…

— David Hume

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…

— Joseph Conrad

Real men show actions instead of talking...

— Frenchqueen