Act Quotes - page 4

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke)
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! View quote
Arno Allan Penzias
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. View quote
Bayard Rustin
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. View quote
Gerard Way
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. View quote
Joseph Addison
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. (Nicholas Sparks)
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. View quote
Michael Chabon
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. (Bertrand Russell)
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. View quote
Václav Havel
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
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