Action Quote by Aristotle

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle”

— Christine Zolendz

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

— Aristotle

“was Aristotle who said it: “All human actions have one or more of seven causes,” and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit,…

— Carole Radziwill

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit…

— Thorstein Veblen

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for…

— Earl Nightingale

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

— William Graham Sumner

All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Anonymous

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we…

— John Tillotson