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Act Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction…
- Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will…
- The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
- There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
- To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but I doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is ot…
- Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we…
- Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love…
- Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act…
- Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love…
- Given the imperfections of our society and the apparent downward spiral of spiritual and moral values in recent years, thinking has become a grave issue.…
More Act Quotes
- 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
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden