Top 1200 Acts Of Bravery Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

I don't act in sex comedies, and whoever acts in them, I don't think it's bad, because cinema, art and theatre are the mirrors of society.

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

It is one of the great acts of American generosity and charity, what we are doing for these unaccompanied kids who are smuggled into our country or come across illegally.

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

One of Obama's first major acts as president was to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and some of the money in that bill went to Saft.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

When the President acts, he must do so pursuant to constitutionally enumerated Article II powers or statutory power allocated to him by Congress.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

I also welcomed the Kartarpur corridor. I think it is a good step but I can't go to Pakistan when terrorist acts are being carried out here.

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.