Top 1200 Acts Of Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

A theatre tour as me, Joe Lycett, with support acts. That would be the dream.

Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Yeah, I know a lot of soldiers. I know soldiers who don't like to hear thank you for your service. And I know soldiers that do like to be told thank you for your service. The ones who don't like to be told are the ones who've been through serious sh*t. They don't care about feedback. They did their job. They did what they have to do. Sometimes the people that thank them are exactly the ones they don't want to be thanked by.

Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.

You hear rumours of some double-acts who can't stand each other. That can't be true. You couldn't do it.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts.

There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured by the knowledge that in Christ, our origin... and destination is God, we will yield the fruit of service to God. This is the "so what" of our Bible reading. Does it shape our spirits in love and humility? Does it lead us more fully into life with God? (Life with God, p. 34-35)

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.