| "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny." »George Santayana |
| "The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." »Scott Adams |
| "Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act." »Sallust |
| "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward." »Robyn Davidson |
| "Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience." »Johann Huizinga |
| "Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." »Pablo Picasso |
| "Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it." »Maurice Masterlinck |
| "An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception." »Harold Loukes |
| "Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines." »Erich Fromm |
| "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "An act against my will is not my act." »Unknown |
| "To know and to act are one and the same." »Samurai Proverb |
| "act as if it were impossible to fail." »Dorothea Brande |
| "Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act." »The Talmud |
| "Be great in act, as you have been in thought." »William Shakespeare |
| "No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do." »Karin Ireland |
| "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique." »William James |
| "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." »Carl Sandburg |
| "act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." »William James |
| "The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational." »Scott Adams |
| "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." »Aristotle |
| "Hollywood actors and actress are not better than you -- They just act like they are." »Eric Pio |
| "Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences." »Anonymous |
| "It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do." »Mencius |
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