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

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Future, Live In The Now

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

topic: Real, Self, Magic, Self-doubt, Acting As If

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

topic: Horse, Fear, Mean, Grizzly Bears, Grizzlies

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

- David Graeber

topic: Acting, Action, Direct, Acting As If

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Desire, Acting, Confidence And Courage, Confidence And Love

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

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

topic: Eggs, Acting, Asking, Sunny Side, Acting As If

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

topic: Acting As If

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

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

topic: Military, Thinking, People, Acting As If

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

topic: Letting Go, Expectations, Acting, Acting As If

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

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Grace, Acting, Quitting, Grace And Mercy, God's Grace

'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

topic: Volleyball, War, College, Acting As If, Sufficient

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

source: Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

topic: Men, Giving, Acting, Acting As If

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

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

topic: Beautiful, Expression, People, Acting As If

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

topic: Love, Heart, Thinking, Happy Relationship, Expressing Love

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

- Albert Einstein

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

topic: Land, Brain, Acting, Acting As If

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

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Singing, Acting, Helping, Acting As If

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

- Judy Blume

topic: Acting, Angry, Acting As If

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

source: "The seven storey mountain".

topic: Wisdom, Prayer, Pride, Acting As If