Act Quotes

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live with...

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at a...

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to ...

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts ...

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Police can only act on intelligence.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't c...

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriag...

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and...

To love is to act.

A library implies an act of faith.

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, o...

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on ...

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But ...

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you ...

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which gra...