Top 100 Think And Act Quotes
#1. Boys' connections - to other people and to their selves - can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.
Judy Chu
#2. The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today's world. When story and context are equally embraced, we are beginning to think and act missionally.
Michael Frost
#3. I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
Rihanna
#4. Ask yourself, are you an artist, or are you an art business? You can be both, but to be successful you need to think and act like a business owner.
Dave Conrey
#5. Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
Che Guevara
#6. For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
Albert Einstein
#7. Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.
Janice Anderson
#8. Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez
#9. For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.
Robert Kurson
#10. Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Richard John Neuhaus
#11. Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
Nikola Tesla
#12. All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.
Debasish Mridha
#14. The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.
Prentice Mulford
#15. We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#16. Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
Francois Fenelon
#17. If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.
Charles Bukowski
#19. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
Roy Bennett
#20. But if you sit around thinking what to do and end up not doing anything, why bother even thinking about it? You're better off going out on the town and having a good time. No, we have to think and act. That's what we're doing here, and that's what you have to do.
Elvia Alvarado
#21. Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
Randy Alcorn
#22. Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.
Michael LeBoeuf
#23. Profound changes in the way we think and act must take place if we are to create a loving culture.
Bell Hooks
#24. Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
James Surowiecki
#25. Higher level independence starts with the freedom and independence of the mind to think and act according to the highest principles of knowledge and worthy traditions of a nation.
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
#26. When you think with your human minds and act with your human bodies, you'll get human results left and right all the time. It's logical! But when you think and act from your soul, when you live this life like it's already your eternal life, you are able to do so much more.
Sean Patrick Brennan
#27. The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.
Nicholas Tharcher
#28. Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself.
Napoleon Hill
#29. You can't think and act like a victim and expect victory.
Bill Bartmann
#31. Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.
Os Guinness
#32. On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles
as well as poetry and emotions.
F. David Peat
#33. This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".
Angela Y. Davis
#34. Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority.
Gene Brewer
#35. In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.
Goh Chok Tong
#36. in order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been. You cannot get to the next phase of a project without a grander mind-set, more acceleration, and extra horsepower.
Grant Cardone
#37. Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.
Evita Ochel
#38. No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
Saint Basil
#39. When we are love deficient, we think and act in ways that are not congruent with who we are.
Lisa Hamilton
#40. Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates ... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#41. ...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.
Derrick Jensen
#42. As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.
Craig Groeschel
#43. Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
Aristotle.
#45. Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#47. The world's thoughts are games that are played. They aren't true, but they are agreements of the ways to think and act. The presently dominant thoughts are all built for the needs of maintaining hierarchical power.
Hannu
#48. Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.
John O'Donohue
#49. ...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
Kathleen Smith
#50. The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
Robert Sternberg
#51. Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.
Bob Burg
#52. To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us.
It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.
Dallas Willard
#53. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
George Lakoff
#54. Do not get depressed because of your condition; think and act courageously to change your situation.
Debasish Mridha
#55. man clings to the mother-hand of the past, till he can think and act alone.
Henry Harrison Brown
#56. You need to think and act like you're running a start-up: your career.
Reid Hoffman
#57. People who believe that Jesus is already Lord and that he will appear again as judge of the world are called and equipped (to put it mildly) to think and act quite differently in the world from those who don't.
N. T. Wright
#58. The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
William Ralph Inge
#59. If you want different, you have to think and act different.
Pat Croce
#60. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.
Vin Diesel
#61. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#62. An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
Eraldo Banovac
#63. I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Maurice Gibb
#64. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
Kanye West
#65. If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
Angela Bassett
#67. Most people are not, I have realized, emotionally well-practiced. We tend to misunderstand our fears and misinterpret our desires. We act when we ought to sit still; we feel when we should instead think, and in the end, this allows our emotions to handle us as opposed to us handling them.
Lynn Toler
#68. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
Ruth Ozeki
#69. Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.
Stephen Boss
#70. This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show.
Howard Thompson
#71. I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison
#72. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
Bo Burnham
#73. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
Frederick Douglass
#74. A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
Michael Showalter
#75. Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
Herb Kelleher
#76. I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
Marion Cotillard
#77. I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.
Rachel Weisz
#78. There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw
Cassandra Clare
#79. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
#80. It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
Benjamin Graham
#81. Think globally and act locally.
C.J. Box
#82. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.
Rudy Simone
#83. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...
Corliss Lamont
#84. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.
Ingrid Betancourt
#85. One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
Mike Love
#86. To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.
John Trevor Godfrey
#87. When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.
Jim Costa
#88. Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#89. I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was.
Catherine Tate
#90. You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the dragon and the witch was in them and not in the world.
Robin Sacredfire
#92. I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. Chidambaram
#93. Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.
Jill Greenberg
#94. I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.
Joe Eszterhas
#95. I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel's attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don't understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.
Christina Lauren
#96. I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...
Ian McEwan
#97. When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn't matter.). When you play music, think of water, and when you act, think of god.
Katie Waitman
#98. I like him a lot.... I think I might love him. And it obviously isn't everything, but being the way I am has been a huge part of my life. It's easy to act like my past never happened, but it feels like I've put up this wall around my heart.
Meredith Russo
#99. When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.
Joyce Meyer
#100. People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members.
Seohyun
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