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Action Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two…
- Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
- Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside…
- Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
- Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or…
- The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over…
- A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
- At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;…
- The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a…
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — 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