Acts Quotes

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Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over… — Guy Finley
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom… — Hugh Prather
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. — Luc de Clapiers
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the… — Joan D. Chittister
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. — Thomas Jefferson
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you… — Max Lucado
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis de Sade
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… — Thomas Jefferson
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a… — Art Linkletter
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts. — Byron Katie
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing. — Carlos Castaneda
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions… — Ludwig von Mises
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson
Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no… — Carlos Castaneda
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which… — Carlos Castaneda
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell… — Ludwig von Mises

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