Action Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself;…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

— John Galsworthy

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A man can have nothing but what he strives for.

— Anonymous

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord…

— James Allen

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself…

— Ayn Rand

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.

— Octavio Paz

The purpose of man is to live, not to exist.

— Ritu Ghatourey