Action Quote by Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

— Aristotle

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…

— Aristotle

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying…

— Joseph Story

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to…

— Mencius

The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

— Samuel Johnson

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

— Immanuel Kant

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

— Theodore Dalrymple