action Quotes

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

The main goal of a statesman is to create a certain moral character in their citizens, specifically a tendency towards virtue and performing good actions.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not... ...

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.