"Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk."

Act, Benefits, Rest, Risk

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk."

Exlpore more Act quotes

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act,

"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, Irish Dramatist

Act, Desire, Man, World

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist

Act, Applause, Glory, World

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Act,

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

Act, Fact, Grief, Man

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act, Quotation, Words

"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

Georges Clemenceau, French Leader

Act, Man, Order, Thinking

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

Act, Impulses

Explore more quotes by Wynton Marsalis

"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."

Music

"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."

Now

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

Music

"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."

Activism

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

Education

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

Brother

"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

Progress

"Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance."

Style

"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."

Money

"There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs."

People