Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Tim Allen

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Ambrose Bierce

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.
Neale Donald Walsch

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
Gary Ryan Blair

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
Jimmy Buffett

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul Tillich

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot