The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.