Johann Kaspar Lavater Action Quotations

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Words are the wings of actions.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.