Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.Norman Vincent Peale
Quotes to Explore
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Naomi Watts -
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson -
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
Laura Wasser -
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt -
I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
Zaha Hadid -
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
Xavier Becerra -
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles -
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
Frances Farmer -
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen -
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
Adam Cohen
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There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
Rabih Alameddine -
But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
Saif Ali Khan -
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant -
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali -
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
Victoria Pratt -
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
George Washington -
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
Norman Vincent Peale