Deeds Done Quotes - Page 2

• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Charity, Action

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Good Deeds, Truth Is

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

  Success, Men, Deeds And Words

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

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• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Life, Deeds And Words

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.

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• A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Reality, Kind Deeds

  "Jesse Jackson: A Candid Conversation with the Civil Rights Leader". Interview With Arthur Kretchmer, playboysfw.kinja.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Do your best with what you have where you are.

  Lucy Punch

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Agreement

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

  Shari Arison

  Positive Thinking, Simple, Kind Deeds

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• Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sun, Good Deeds, Lost

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.54, Penguin

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• ... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this life. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said: 'He who gathers not with Me scatters' (Lk. 11:23).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Jesus, Grace

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• Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that commenced in heaven, that has existed through all time, and that will continue until the winding up scene, until He reigns whose right it is to reign, when He shall come in clouds of glory to reward every man according to the deeds done in the body.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, Clouds, Light

  Wilford Woodruff, Brian H. Stuy (1987). “Collected Discourses: 1886-1889”

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• Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Action, Results

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

  Muhammad

  Animal, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

  Horace

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Eye, Victory

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