Acts Quotes

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The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens… — Sun Tzu
Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind,… — Wayne Dyer
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage. — Aristotle
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. — Aldo Leopold
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him,… — Kano Jigoro
Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame… — Cory Booker
Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is,… — Paul of the Cross
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in… — Alistair Cooke
Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so… — Kofi Annan
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love… — Alphonsus Liguori
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you. — Wayne Dyer
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. — Robert Foster Bennett
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. — Sigmund Freud
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,… — Cesar Chavez
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why. — William Hazlitt
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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