action Quotes

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Happiness is a sort of action.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But... ...

Character is revealed through action.

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not... ...

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.