If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
– M Scott Peck
Related Quotes:
- Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism.Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be…. – Victor Antonio Hayes
- Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. – M Scott Peck
- The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution. – M Scott Peck
- As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant. – M Scott Peck
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M Scott Peck
- Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up. – M Scott Peck
- You must have something in order to give it up. – M Scott Peck
- It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets. – M Scott Peck
- We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength. – M Scott Peck
- Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process. – M Scott Peck
- The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. – M Scott Peck
- A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action – M Scott Peck
- Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization. – M Scott Peck
- The true meaning of Christ’s teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. – Leo Tolstoy
- To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. – William James
- Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70) – PG Mathew
- Just because history says it isn’t possible doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions. – Gail Carriger
- When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning. – Katelyn Beaty
- Nature provides exceptions to every rule. – Margaret Fuller
- A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. – Christy Hall
- Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. – Murray N Rothbard
- By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health. – Laurence Miller
- Natural laws admit of no exceptions. – Herbert M Shelton
- All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this. – M Kirin
- …I can’t make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don’t have to feel good to do it. – Patricia Hamill
- Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. – Catherine Anderson
- Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage. – Carol Shields
- It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe. – Katlyn Charlesworth
- Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don’t be a courage thief. – Benjamin Lotter
- The courage to dream, the courage to act. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God’s work cannot be done without love. – Dwight L Moody
- Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination. – John Fowles
- An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage. – Kilroy J Oldster
- But shouldn’t they still act like children? They aren’t normal. They act like–history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus. – Orson Scott Card
- If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid. – Rand Miller
- Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem … – Aldous Huxley