Acts Quotes
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
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Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.
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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
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He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
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Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
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If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.
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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
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A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.
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When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.
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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people.
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Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.
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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
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In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
