Action Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

— David Hume

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at…

— Joseph Addison

To utilize advantage to disadvantage, is to avoid responsibility and reality

— Sabian Mark Henry De Long

There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation…

— Joseph Hall

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody is trying to take advantage of situations, and if you don't take advantage of a situation, you get taken advantage of by somebody…

— Chase Elliott

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your…

— Mario Puzo

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the…

— William Godwin