Top 1200 Acts Of Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

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

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

Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

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

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.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

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

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

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

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

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.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

I classify myself as a comedian, but I'm one of those comedians who also acts so that I can split the difference and feel insecure about both.

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

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

It's cool to have courage.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Courage is exhilarating.

Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

From caring comes courage.

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.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

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

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

All requires courage.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

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.

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

I have the courage to be mistaken.

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

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.