Act Quotes

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar Gracian

Others, Leave, Talking

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Jean Paul

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.
Bayard Rustin

Society, Human, Him

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
Alfred A. Montapert

Great, Dream, Plan

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young

Life, Education, Work

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz

Courage, Failure, Successful

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.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Friend, Decision

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. Bush

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Made, Whole

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Sallust

Thought, Action

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks

Moving, Past, Self

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Paris Hilton

Everyone, Presume, Heiress

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.
Rush Limbaugh

Nice, Help, Saying

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great, Writing, May

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole

Faith, Result, Obedience

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett

Respect, Sympathy, Living

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover

Regret, Unless, Commerce

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond Tutu

God, Powerful, Against

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill

Opinion, Anyone, Exercise

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

Kindness, End, Remember

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann

Time, Money, Person

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Christopher Morley

End, Expect, Zone

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony

Courage, Afraid, Simply

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh

Greater, Thinks, Satisfying

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien Leigh

Beauty, Great, Care

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Vivien Leigh

Love, Give, Trying

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch

Life, Friendship, God

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
Jean Renoir

Betrayal, Succeed, Possible

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.
Bernard de Mandeville

Passion, Learned, Quality

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