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“A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a man”
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
William Hutchinson Murray
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
Chamfort
“If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”
George Bernard Shaw
“People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately”
Oscar Wilde
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
Bertrand Russell
“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly”
Anatole France
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal
