Act Quotes - page 4

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. (Bayard Rustin)
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. View quote
Gerard Way
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. View quote
Joseph Addison
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. (Michael Chabon)
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. View quote
Václav Havel
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing. View quote
William Faulkner
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. (Janeane Garofalo)
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something. View quote
Duke Ellington
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. View quote
Henri Bergson
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. View quote
Nadine Gordimer