Acting As If Quotes

• 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.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 18, 2015

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

  Wayne Dyer

  Real, Magic Kingdom, Self

  25 Copy quote

• By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Acting, Grizzly Bears, Not Afraid

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

  David Graeber

  Direct Action, Acting, Ifs

  19 Copy quote

• There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Horse, Fear, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Positive, Confidence

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.5, Jaico Publishing House

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

  Alice Hoffman

  Eggs, Acting, Asking

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Indigo”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Preparation, Dying, Acting

  8 Copy quote

• Most of the world is fooling about, especially the people who think they control the world and the community. The presidents, the politicians, the military, etc., are all jerking about, acting as if they are Lord over their own domains. That's basically Problem One on the planet.

  George Harrison

  Military, Thinking, People

  "Why being a Beatle was not enough". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.theguardian.com. 1982.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Letting Go, Expectations, Acting

  4 Copy quote

• God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

  T. D. Jakes

  Grace And Mercy, Acting, God's Grace

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.507, Baker Books

  258 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

  Samantha Power

  Volleyball, War, College

  7 Copy quote

• There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Giving, Acting

  Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Expression, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.

  John Templeton

  Love, Heart, Thinking

  11 Copy quote

• Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

  Albert Einstein

  Land, Brain, Acting

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.263, Princeton University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.

  David Foster Wallace

  Singing, Acting, Helping

  5 Copy quote

• Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

  Judy Blume

  Acting, Angry, Ifs

  5 Copy quote

• None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Pride

  "The seven storey mountain".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source