It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
Morgan Freeman

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
Eric Cantona

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
William James

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
Julie Christie

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
Tina Turner

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul Tillich