Action Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.”

— Aristotle

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently…

— Aristotle

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which…

— Aristotle

“Yet in its life, for eight hundred years, virtue alone, that one word, has illuminated and explained something of what we think we are,…

— Melvyn Bragg

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and…

— Aristotle

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every…

— Samuel Johnson

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig…

— Meryl Streep

“History: a context in which the capital letters decompose, and with them, the men who imagine and cherish them.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“but what men imagine they are doing and what they are doing in fact are rarely the same thing.”

— James Baldwin

“Men cannot imagine themselves being the victim of wrongs which they find it quite natural to inflict upon others. But when that, in fact,…

— Simone Weil

Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or…

— William Shakespeare