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«Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.»
«A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman | About: Social service | Keywords: act upon
«Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.»
«However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»
«But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!»
«Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.»
«Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.»
«Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.»
«Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.»
«Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!»
Author: William S. Gilbert (Lyricist) | Keywords: act upon