Act Quotes

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

If then we have under nature variability and a powerful agent always ready to act and select, why should we doubt that variations in any way useful to beings, under their excessively complex relations of life, would be preserved, accumulated, and inherited?

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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