action Quotes

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would... ...

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

"Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war."