A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Action expresses priorities.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

As government expands, liberty contracts.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Effective action is always unjust.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

It’s a terrible thing to appear on television – because people think you actually know what you’re talking about!

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity

Think globally, act locally.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobodys perfect so I stopped practicing.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.