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Action Quotes by Plato
- The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or…
- Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
- Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
- He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
- Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in…
- He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to…
- A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether…
- Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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