Act Quote by Benjamin Robbins Curtis

The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain…

— Thomas Malthus

“most men consider their rationally selected actions are in fact idiosyncratic responses that have grown strong enough, through repeated use, to overpower other urges…

— Caleb Carr

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His…

— Herb Goldberg

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

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

— Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave…

— Aristotle

Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

— Gustave Flaubert

Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more…

— Earl Nightingale

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious…

— Alexander Hamilton

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy…

— William James