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Actions Quotes by Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- 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.
- 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…
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. .…
- So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake…
- Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
- . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
- The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in…
- Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses…
- Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
- The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is…
- We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
- These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way…
More Actions 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
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- 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
- Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. — Abu Bakr
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson
- It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions. — Rhonda Byrne
- Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should… — Dalai Lama