Act Quotes

Don't just aim, Shoot!Don't just talk, Do!Don't just walk, Move!Don't just hope, Act!Don’t just follow, Lead!Don’t just dream, Live!Don’t just exist, Love!

~ Farshad Asl

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Craig Groeschel

Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else's head and it's just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

~ Sigmund Freud

It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!

~ Ellery Adams

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

~ Richie Norton

Life is not about the people who act true to your face, It's about the people who remain true behind your back.

~ Moosa Rahat

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act normal. I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

~ John Elder Robison

Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.

~ Peter Watts

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

~ Jim George

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

~ D'andre Lampkin

Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

~ Pat Schneider

There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act. So, all this is, is a stage for glory, small, personal and up to each one of us.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.

~ Amit Kalantri

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

~ Joseph Mccabe

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

~ Debasish Mridha

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.

~ Cortney S. Warren

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.

~ C.s. Lewis

The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.

~ Anthony Liccione

CURTAIN CALLThe world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play

~ Kamil Ali

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

~ Treat Williams

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

~ George Orwell

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

~ George W. Bush

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

~ Albert Einstein

To love is to act.

~ Victor Hugo

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

~ Jeremy London

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

~ Muhammad Iqbal

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

~ Stephen Rodrick

If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.

~ Bob Beckel

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

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Police can only act on intelligence.

~ P. Chidambaram

Architecture is definitely a political act.

~ Peter Eisenman

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauß

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

~ Mark Hyman

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

~ Blaise Pascal

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

~ Unknown