Quotes about action

"You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy."

Ashton, Marvin J. on action
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"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
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"He is rich that is satisfied."

Fuller, Thomas on action   

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

Lao-Tzu on action
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"That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on action   

"Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on action   

"A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it."

Movie, Cool Runnings on action   

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."

Pauling, Linus on action   

"Many have too much, but none enough."

Proverb, Danish on action
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"When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have."

Proverb, French on action
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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on action   

"In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire."

Adams, Charles Francis on action   

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on action
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"The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place."

Allen, Loius A. on action
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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action   

"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action
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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Effective action is always unjust."

Anouilh, Jean on action
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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on action
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"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on action
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"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."

Arendt, Hannah on action   

"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."

Arendt, Hannah on action   

"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on action
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

Aristotle on action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on action
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action   

"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus on action
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"It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! "

Bacon, Francis on action   

"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."

Balzac, Honore De on action   

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

Batt, Al on action
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