Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.


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When you are pushed to the wall, you will act and do things you have never done before.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Never let your excitement to fuel your decisions.
PRITISH PATTANAIK
Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.
ANONYMOUS
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have com...
ELLEN J. BARRIER
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
EDWARD BROOKE
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
AARON ECKHART
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you brea...
GEORGE CLEMENCEAU
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE
When people treat you foolishly because of your gentleness_ act wisely before falling into their han...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can yo...
I.M. PEI
I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of...
MONICA BELLUCCI
When (the Political Reform Act) was originally written, a lot more people didn't necessarily conside...
KATHAY FENG
It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that se...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that e...
RUBY WAX
Act because you love to act.
MAE WHITMAN
You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
RICHARD MADDEN
Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI
If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI
In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU
The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU
We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU
you have to act very quickly.
CHRISTOPHER PAINTER
Impulse control means learning to think it through before you act it out.
TERENCE T. GORSKI
We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.
CASPAR HENDERSON
Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it�...
STEVE MARABOLI
Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it'...
STEVE MARABOLI
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
When you are taught that you evolved from an animal then you will act like an animal. When you know ...
NORM TOMLINSON
Sometimes you have to act crazy to stay sane
DAN MCADAM
Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as ...
JORDAN BELFORT
How you act on the worst time is make you the wise man of best time.
BHAGAT NEGI
You have the power to attract providence into human realm,when you engage in the act of uncommon for...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When you are afraid to act for fear of being wrong, then you have ignored the chance of doing right.
AK
You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang...
TARSEM SINGH
You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life ac...
NICK VUJICIC
You don't cut somebody up, bag them ... dump them in the bay when you act in self-defense. It just d...
JOEL BENNETT
The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothi...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response f...
R.D. RONALD
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Ac...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shy, insecure, afraid to speak up? “Act as if,” they say. Act as if you’re not. Stand tall whe...
TAMARA IRELAND STONE
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN
In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
JIMMY BUFFETT
To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.
LOU FERRIGNO
When health prevails, vitality pervades both mind and body.By the process of loving service, you can...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
TUPAC SHAKUR
It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you...
LAURA DERN
When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to ...
SALMAN AZIZ
Don't act like what you see about them, but act what they think about you.
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF)
If you have not been playing your role well in life, you have to act out your part and the best plac...
APURVA GAGLANI
You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
W. H. AUDEN
Begin to act even now and you will definitely have results
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!
JOYCE MEYER
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars do...
IAN MCKELLEN
If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to othe...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS
You can perform an act of excellence when tying your shoes.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
You have mastered the art of discipline when you are able to act according to what you ultimately de...
MENSAH OTEH
If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.
KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
GEORGE W. CRANE
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN
Transparency makes you to act with fairness, without favouring anyone.Transparency inculcates qualit...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an...
RAYMOND BLANC
You give people power over you when you believe what they say and act in accordance to that belief.
DONALD LYNN FROST
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
DALE CARNEGIE
If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.
ADAM WEST
When you start finding your habitat within you - Reckon it as an act of Serenity
ASHISH SOPHAT
It's uncalled for when people act like that. You can play hard within the rules. You don't have to b...
JAKE SCOTT
We need to make sure that we fix it this time, because what if that had been an act of terrorism? .....
JOHN MCCAIN
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
HENRY KISSINGER
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simpl...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE
[The act] has been implemented now for 30 years, ... A lot has changed over that time. We have advan...
BILL HOLBROOK
We've had 16 dress rehearsals up until this point. Tonight was show time and act one, so we have to ...
DON BETHEL
I learned from Harriet that someone can be stone cold and at the same time act like they care.
CHARLES SOECHTING
This is the quiet time. Now is the time to act to push back the tide of HIV in Asia,
DAVID BLOOM
The time to act is now.
DAN TOOLE
Time is of the essence to protect this beautiful wildflower and this is what the Endangered Species ...
ERIN ROBERTSON
For international retailers interested in the Russian and Chinese market , the time to act is now.
FADI FARRA
I would say give them some time to get their act together.
JAN PRONK
He doesn't act like he's 22, ... I think the one thing about him is every time he goes out there, he...
JASON KENDALL
He doesn't act like he's 22. I think the one thing about him is every time he goes out there, he's g...
JASON KENDALL
They are doing a selfless act on their own time.
KATHLEEN KELLEY
It's time to act, quite frankly.
JEFF MIKULINA
The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capri...
E.M. FORSTER
Before you start to consider your limits, you should consider that you were born limitless.
MICHAL HARCEJ
Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the ...
BHAGAVAD GITA
Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
WILLIAM JAMES
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA MAY HARRIS
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA HARRIS
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly
CORRA HARRIS
When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you ac...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, ...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.

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Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own. [Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]
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Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]
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