Act Quotes

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I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I… — Desmond Tutu
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You… — Nathaniel Branden
Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or… — Shakti Gawain
Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long… — Maurice Maeterlinck
It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly… — Mike Rowe
In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we… — Per G. Malm
Exercise is an unnatural act. — Peter De Vries
In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions. — Leo Tolstoy
Commit no act that is contrary to love. — Leo Tolstoy
Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Always act as if you were seen. — Baltasar Gracian
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory… — Elie Wiesel
Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every act of perception has an emotional coloring. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know how to act are never preachers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is… — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has… — Walker Percy

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