#Act

"Quit making shade while I’m trying to make noon. Go put on a blindfold and act like midnight. There’s leftover love in the freezer if you get cold."

"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."

"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless."

"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."

"Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity."

"Don't just talk, act."

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"Nothing is born into this world without labor."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Change your thoughts, change your world."

"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."

"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."

"A chance meeting in a Kansas City coffee shop may take me months of planning and twice a day visits for over a year. But I already have my stunned, surprised, and shocked speech rehearsed for the moment I act like I had no idea she would be there."

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."

"Winners were not born winners; they learnt and practiced how to win and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate"until something happened... an a breakthrough became evident!"

"Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more."

"There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'"

"Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it."