Act Quotes - page 5

Go to sleep. Dream. Wake up. Act. Invent. Fight. Win. Go to sleep. Dream. (Jared Leto)
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. View quote
Bill Gates
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. View quote
Erich Fromm
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. View quote
Carroll Quigley
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. View quote
Winston Churchill
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. View quote
Peter Drucker
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. (Sigmund Freud)
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
There is ... but one categorical imperative Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. View quote
Immanuel Kant
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! View quote
Abdul Kalam
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. View quote
James Callaghan
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. View quote
Ronald Reagan
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. View quote
Horace Mann
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. View quote
John Adams
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. (George Eliot)
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. View quote
James Allen
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. View quote
William O. Douglas
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow