Action Origin Quotes

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.