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“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.”

Humans Action Desire Turns Consciousness Habit Burning Vigorous Human Actions Implants Burning Desire Desire For Success

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.”

Humans Made Action Certain Choices Teach Consequence Undone Human Actions Actions Have Consequences

Book:Why History Matters: Life and Thought

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Humans Reason Action Desire Passion Causes Nature Chance Habit Philosophical Excellence Seven Compulsion Human Actions Daily Habits Moral Excellence Passion And Desire Passion For Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.”

Men Humans May Art Action Grace Honor Future Quiet Gains Tests Sight Regard Makers Attributes Majesty Magnificence Human Actions

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”

Humans Action Political Powerful Roles Society Advice Ears Currents Conception Misconception Whispering Contributing Human Actions Words Of Advice

Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

“In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.”

Men World Humans Ideas Reality Action Interest Results Independent Human Actions

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.”

Humans Action Universe Natural Society Events Fit Range Analysis Description Procedures Natural Science Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.”

Humans Action Motivation Four Hunger Vanity Motive Human Actions

Book:Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”

Ifs Humans Doe Use Seems Action Certain Novel Dangerous Cost All Things Universal Rough Steers Artistry Effortless Practise Reefs Human Actions Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.”

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches