Action Quote by Ramana Maharshi

“If someone tells you that pleasure is wrong and tolerance is weakness, and that you must follow this or that dogma blindly in obedience,…

— Seth

“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

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be…

— Kenneth Patchen

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

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts…

— Jacques Philippe

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Milan Kundera

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in…

— Peter Abelard

“Every action, whether noble or immoral, is preceded by thought. That thought may be conscious or unconscious, ignorant or mindful. The only way to…

— Darren Main

“It is realistic rather than cynical to observe that in a fallen world there are degrees of virtue in relation to what is right,…

— Os Guinness