Action Quote by Thomas Merton

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

— Ayn Rand

Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit,…

— Erich Fromm

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do…

— Alexander Lowen

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement…

— Mark Twight

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

— Erich Fromm

“The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition. That’s”

— Ryan Holiday

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he…

— Prentice Mulford

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

— Jean Piaget

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and…

— Joseph Pilates

“It is a curious psychological fact that the man who seems to be "egotistic" is not suffering from too much ego, but from too…

— Sydney J. Harris

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more…

— Charles M. Schwab

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances…

— Alexander Graham Bell