Top 1200 Acts Of Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

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

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

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

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you're not so good - not so important.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.