| "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." »Pablo Picasso |
| "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 |
| "To know and to act are one and the same." »Samurai Proverb |
| "An act against my will is not my act." »Unknown |
| "act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." »William James |
| "No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do." »Karin Ireland |
| "Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act." »The Talmud |
| "act as if it were impossible to fail." »Dorothea Brande |
| "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." »Carl Sandburg |
| "Be great in act, as you have been in thought." »William Shakespeare |
| "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique." »William James |
| "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think." »Hannah Arendt |
| "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 talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences." »Anonymous |
| "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 |
| "Do you want to know who you are Don't ask. act action will delineate and define you." »Witold Gombrowicz |
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