Act Quotes
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See also 400 Things - General (Ogden) List :: Core English Vocabulary (A) List :: Core English Vocabulary (A) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#4) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#08) List-
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
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Act the part and you will become the part.
William James
Subject: Focus QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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We talk on principle, but we act on interest
Walter Savage Landor
Subject: Action Quotes :: Interest QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord
Thomas Paine
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Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
Spiro Kostof
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Keywords: accident :: act :: and :: any :: be :: by :: emergency :: he :: himself :: how :: is :: meaning :: motto :: must :: never :: of :: on :: or :: out :: practicing :: prepare :: prepared :: previous :: scout :: so :: surprise :: taken :: that :: the :: thinking :: toSubject: Scouting QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed. Because what is going on that a senator doesn`t act according to script, acts according to conscience, and everybody is taken...
Senator John Kerry
Keywords: aback :: according :: act :: acts :: amazed :: and :: because :: behold :: conscience :: country :: doesn :: everybody :: going :: is :: lo :: on :: people :: script :: senator :: taken :: that :: the :: to :: was :: washington :: were :: whatSubject: Conscience Quotes :: Washington QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter F. Drucker
Keywords: act :: capacity :: create :: endows :: entrepreneurship :: innovation :: instrument :: is :: new :: of :: resources :: specific :: that :: the :: to :: wealth :: withSubject: Innovation QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
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Every good act is charity. A man`s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
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If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
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When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity
Janet Watson
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
Subject: Dissent QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler ...
Immanuel Kant
Keywords: act :: against :: and :: as :: attached :: by :: can :: commonwealth :: descendants :: down :: fellow :: hand :: have :: he :: hereditary :: his :: if :: in :: member :: no :: nor :: occupies :: of :: one :: privilege :: privileges :: qualified :: rank :: ruler :: subjects :: the :: thus :: to :: wereSource: thinkexist.com
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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
Harriet Martineau
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Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.
Donna A. Favors
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Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting kille...
Chief Edward F. Croker
Keywords: accomplished :: act :: after :: all :: are :: becomes :: been :: bravery :: department :: does :: face :: fact :: fireman :: firemen :: get :: getting :: going :: greatest :: has :: he :: his :: in :: is :: join :: killed :: line :: man :: not :: of :: that :: the :: they :: thinking :: to :: were :: wh :: what :: when :: workSource: thinkexist.com
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering
Subject: Action Quotes :: Belief QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Chamfort
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Bill Lovejoy
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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
Keywords: acknowledge :: act :: an :: as :: being :: confers :: dignity :: him :: his :: human :: individual :: is :: of :: on :: protest :: protesting :: refusal :: society :: to :: very :: whenSubject: Dignity Quotes :: Protest QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Andy Grove
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one`s ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
Keywords: abilities :: act :: and :: bet :: better :: between :: but :: calculated :: courage :: difference :: failure :: has :: ideas :: is :: not :: often :: on :: one :: or :: person :: risk :: successful :: take :: that :: the :: toSubject: Ability Quotes :: Action Quotes :: Courage Quotes :: Failure Quotes :: Ideas Quotes :: Risk-taking Quotes :: Success QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
