Quotes About Action

Wir sind das, was wir wiederholt tun.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

We become brave by doing brave acts.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.

Each type of activity produces the corresponding sort of person

good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

the first principle of all action is leisure.

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.

Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Every art or applied science and every systematic investigation, and similarly every action and choice, seem to aim at some good; the good, therefore, has been well defined as that at which all things aim.

By the way, a question is sometimes raised, whether the moral choice or the actions have most to do with Virtue, since it consists in both: it is plain that the perfection of virtuous action requires both: but for the actions many things are required, and the greater and more numerous they are the more.)

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean