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But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them. — Patanjali

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams

I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. — Yann Martel

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. — Corra Harris

ACT on your dreams! It is not enough to just want it. Don't throw away another day. Take action and watch them come alive! — Steve Maraboli

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not. — Eric Powell

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt ... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me. — Eartha Kitt

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create. — Roger Garaudy

The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival. — Merle Hoffman

And this is a time to act, not wonder. — Kate DiCamillo

The sage's Way is to act and not to contend. — Laozi

Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. — Oswald Chambers

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively. — Edward Brooke

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. — Alexis Carrel

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. — Marcus Aurelius

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction. — Erwin McManus

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. — Terence McKenna

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation. — Vera Nazarian

The act of wishing someone a good life even if it means us not being a part of it is the purest act of love. To know what is best for someone. — Monique Gold

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box. — Katharine Jefferts Schori

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given. — William Powell

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act ... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ. — Dallas Willard

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on — Robin Fox

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act. — Fernando Pessoa

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out. — Anais Nin

To forgive is an act of compassion ... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it. — Joss Whedon

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost. — Edmar Mednis

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer. — John Pugsley

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself. — Theodore Roosevelt

Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a "falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person. Though — Irvin D. Yalom

The government," he told me one night, "is there to act as a safety net, not a candy machine. — Glenn Beck

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice. — Tom Regan

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit. — Ibn Hazm

I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get. — Seungri

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force. — Cameron Dokey

It is much harder to forgive yourself than it is to forgive others. You will not master the act of forgiveness until you start with yourself. — Olarewaju Oladipo

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection. — Mark Crispin Miller

The secret is not to act, but to be. — Steven Seagal

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act! — Pope John Paul II

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side. — Paulo Coelho

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time. — Allison Tolman

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken. — Jodi Picoult

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress. — Sri Chinmoy

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting. — George Burns

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. — William Weld

The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act". — Tom Cruise

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. — Marcus Aurelius

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. — Georges Clemenceau

Playing is a game. Love is an act. Don't pretend to love someone when all you plan to do is play. Love is not a game. It is a lifetime commitment. — Kemi Sogunle

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death. — Veronica Roth

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act ... — Aristotle.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all. — Carl Icahn

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out. — Israelmore Ayivor

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. — Fernando Pessoa

He understood very little about this strange situation, and to act in a situation one does not understand is to invite the most terrible consequences. — Stephen King

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous — Soroosh Shahrivar

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon — Joyce Meyer

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ... — Margaret Oliphant

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress. — Mahatma Gandhi

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition. — Diane Sawyer

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. — Joseph Campbell

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. — George Bernard Shaw

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love! — Mary-Kate Olsen

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government. — Thomas Jefferson

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. — George Meredith

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best. — Adolph Malan

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins

There is nothing that we are allowed to do under USA Freedom Act that we could not do before. — Marco Rubio

Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine. — Steve Hagen

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion. — Dalai Lama

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word. — Monica Johnson

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. — Lydia Davis

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. — Ovid

It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret. — Niccolo Machiavelli

To live is not to breathe but to act. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. — Lin Yutang

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

to not act is a choice too — Melissa Marr

The best way to reclaim your dignity is to act rationally and treat yourself lovingly. Do not self-destruct. — Ben Newman

It is the love in our hearts that we need to act on and not the false match made by our calculating brains. — Ritu Chowdhary

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. — Auberon Herbert

To know and not to act is not to know. — Wang Yangming

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act. — Soren Kierkegaard

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ... — Peter McWilliams

Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry. — M.F. Moonzajer

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. — Anne Roiphe

My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act. — Narendra Modi

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. — Abraham Cahan

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. — Rainer Maria Rilke