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Act Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
- It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to…
- Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
- Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling…
- Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things…
- If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold