If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
Charles Stanley

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
Lawrence Halprin

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
Horace Mann

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Aeschylus

I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
Wanda Sykes

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony