Action Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

— Laozi

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

“Indeed, while it is widely agreed that “emotions play roles in forms of action,”22 the feelings in this study tend to be diagnostic rather…

— Sianne Ngai

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Action often precedes the feeling.

— Zig Ziglar

Our actions determine our dispositions.

— Aristotle

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

“Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled…

— Thomas Sowell

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

— Ralph Marston

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition,…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.

— Daniel Batson