Acts Quotes

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. (Confucius)
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. View quote
Bernard Baruch
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Man is only great when he acts from passion. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. View quote
William Blake
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. View quote
William Hazlitt
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France)
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. View quote
William Wordsworth
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. View quote
Edmund Waller
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. View quote
J. L. Austin
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17. View quote
Miley Cyrus
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. (Golda Meir)
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. View quote
Toni Morrison
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. View quote
Frank Herbert
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are no second acts in American lives. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald