Action Quote by Maimonides

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

— Samuel R. Delany

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the…

— Aristotle

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which…

— John Stuart Mill

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

— Milan Kundera

“Far removed from the eyes of those who practice or are the object of it, an action is a metaphysical complex that surpasses technique…

— Frederico Rochaferreira

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

— Thomas Merton

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

— Samuel Smiles

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

— Ian Hacking

“Four aspects of any action: time, measure, structure, flow p.”

— Guy Windsor

“an action is good when it promotes interests, material or spiritual, as intended by the actor in his motive; and it is bad when…

— Kaiten Nukariya

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

— Stephen Mitchell