Activity

Run, if you like, but try to keep your breath; Work like a man but don’t be worked to death.  Holmes

Acts

The best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.    Wordsworth
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.  John Fletcher

Actions

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven. Francis
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interr’d with their bones. Shakespeare
All our actions take
Their hues from the complexion of the heart,
As landscapes their variety from light. W. T. Bacon
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of [...]

Action

We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them. La Rochefoucauld
When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. Terrence
The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest. [...]

Acquirements

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.  Colton

Acting

All the world’s a stage.  Shakespeare

Acquaintances

If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.   Johnson
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only – those by whom something may be got, and [...]

Acquaintance

There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes and feelings. Wm. Matthews

Account

No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections in my head.   Shakespeare