Quotes
Quotes about Action
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the adverse faction want.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you've collected thrice The train of action through the day! Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where'er I've been, From all I've heard, from all I've seen? What have I more that's worth the knowing? What have I done that's worth the doing? What have I sought that I should shun? What duty have I left undone, Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road That lead to virtue and to God.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.
