Action Quote by Aristotle

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which…

— John Stuart Mill

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to…

— Edward Gibbon

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

— Benjamin Jowett

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

— Benjamin Jowett

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

— Aristotle

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.”

— Aristotle

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative…

— Immanuel Kant

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

— Plutarch

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

— Maimonides

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

— Immanuel Kant