Act Quotes

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we… — George Meredith
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. — William James
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create… — Andre Maurois
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer
I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast… — Jeffrey R. Holland
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those… — Michel de Montaigne
Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important… — Beverly Sills
You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act. — Richard Dreyfuss
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with… — Louis Pasteur
Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act… — Wayne Dyer
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. — Pedro Almodovar
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis. — Samuel Alexander
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where… — Charles R. Swindoll
For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act… — Barack Obama
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the… — Black Elk
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. — Erich Fromm

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