action Quotes

We are what we continually do.

A tragedy is a play about an action that is complete and has a certain importance. Something complete has a beginning, middle, and end.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

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

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become... ...

Running away from problems is cowardly. Even though suicide means facing death, it's not for a noble reason but to escape difficulty.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Good character traits come from regular practice. We become fair by doing fair things, moderate by doing moderate things, and brave by doing brave things.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue... ...