Action Quotes by Aristotle

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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Our actions determine our dispositions.

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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We become just by the practice of just actions.

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Man punishes the action, but God the intention

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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A man is the origin of his action.

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say…

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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to…

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake…

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses…

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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has…

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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole…

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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue…

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating,…

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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply…

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice…

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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem…

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur…

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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in…

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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men…

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions…

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor…

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Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only…

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Character is revealed through action.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.

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