These act quotes will inspire you. Act, do something or take action.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging act quotes, act sayings, and act proverbs.
Best Act Quotes
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
- “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Albert Camus
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” Simone de Beauvoir
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Will Durant
- “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” T. E. Lawrence
- “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.” Amelia Earhart
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” Anatole France
- “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” Aristotle
- “Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.” Robin Morgan
- “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Princess Diana
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“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” Paulo Coelho
- “I don’t need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.” Jeremy London
- “Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.” Ron Hall
- “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia
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“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” Bryan White
- “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” Carl Friedrich Gauss
- “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” Barbara Sher
- “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” Peter Ustinov
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“Caring – about people, about things, about life – is an act of maturity.” Tracy McMillan
- “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” Ayn Rand
- “Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.” Samuel Johnson
- “The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” Keanu Reeves
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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” William Blake
- “How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.” David Joseph Schwartz , Think before act quotes
- “While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.” Jean Chatzky
- “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” Plato
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“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” Charles R. Swindoll
- “But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.” Elizabeth Edwards
- “You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.” Bonnie Hammer
- “Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.” Ferdinand Marcos
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“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” Nikita Khrushchev
- “Nobody’s perfect, so don’t go out there and try to act like you got to live a perfect life. Be yourself, and be happy with it.” Khris Middleton , Don’t act quotes
- “None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy.” Leslie Odom, Jr.
- “There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.” bell hooks
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“I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.” Shigeru Miyamoto
- “In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” J. William Fulbright
- “Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.” Ben Okri
- “Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.” Monica Johnson
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“Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing’s wrong.” Scottie Pippen
- “The key to nature’s therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There’s amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted – but that’s not your act of creation, it’s your act of joining in.” Victoria Coren Mitchell
- “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” Henri Bergson
- “The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman.” Sydney Biddle Barrows
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“Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” Charles Reade
- “What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.” Jay Inslee
- “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!” Paul J. Meyer
- “For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'” Shaquille O’Neal
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“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” M. F. K. Fisher
- “Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.” Pamela Meyer
- “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” Leonard Cohen
- “It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.” Harry Stack Sullivan
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“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.” Tom Wolfe
- “Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.” Alexander Pope
- “You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.” Harriet Martineau
- “Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.” Edwin Louis Cole
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“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.” Annie Besant
- “If we don’t act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.” Bill Nelson
- “Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.” Sylvia Earle
- “Commitment is an act, not a word.” Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas Jefferson
- “I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.” Peter Brook
- “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso
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“The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.” Jacque Fresco
- “The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.” Henry Hazlitt
- “Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath.” Oliver Luck
