Top 1200 Acts Of Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

The public has no interest in whether the President acts boldly or timidly in his personal affairs.

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

Ladies seem very intrigued by a guy who is ultra confident and acts like he doesn't need you.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Edward Snowden is anything but narcissist. In fact, I wonder every day how he could come up with the courage, muster the courage to sacrifice everything just so he could do, as he said in rather eloquent speech initially, alert the American people to what was going on. Call him a traitor, call him whatever you want to. The fact is he is a symptom of the disease, and the disease is constant war and the national security state. That is what we've become. That is our raison d'être in the world today, to wage war.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

Only a firm government that acts tough on fraudsters can send the right signals to the country.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

If we are to change violent criminal acts across our state, we must work together.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.