Act Quotes

I only wanted to sing. Never to act. But somehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded to act in the movies. I hated every moment of it and tried virtually every trick to get out of it.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

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

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

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

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

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

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.