Andre Gide Action Quotations

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action