5,384 Quotes About Action

The quality of a life is determined by its activities

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

must understand we take his lack of action seriously.