Act Quotes
8447 quotes by 5094 authors
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The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
— Charles Darwin
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The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the sky, born at…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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We are all pioneers in the Age of Aquarius. No man can give a man anything other than love. No man can give a man…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Dream Big. Start small. Act now.
— Robin Sharma
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The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one…
— Tim Field
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
— Charles Dickens
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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then…
— Daniel Goleman
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's…
— Donald Trump
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own,…
— Kim Edwards
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the…
— Friedrich Engels
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The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
— Bill Gates
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It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.
— Peter Fonda
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When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do.…
— Geena Davis
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I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in…
— Barry Goldwater
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Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you…
— John McCain
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing…
— L. Neil Smith
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