Act Quotes

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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of… — Phillips Brooks
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. — Erich Fromm
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. — Richard J. Foster
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We… — Margaret J. Wheatley
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. — A. P. Herbert
When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act… — Clark Moustakas
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to… — Andrew Harvey
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. — William Feather
You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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… — Harriet Martineau
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. — Alice Meynell
You simply pour, it will come. And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about - because a lover knows that to love… — Rajneesh
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need… — Rajneesh
Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such… — Rajneesh
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious;… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible.… — Rajneesh
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great… — Rajneesh
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going… — Rajneesh

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