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.
Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Brian Tracy

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine