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Action Quotes by Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave…
- Well begun is half done.
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning…
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has…
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
- It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
- We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
- A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
- This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
- Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
- Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward…
- Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
- Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness…
- Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the…
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. .…
- Happiness is a sort of action.
- Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius