Deeds Quotes - Page 15

• Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Disease, Terrible, Duality

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• Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

  Saint Basil

  Humble, Humility, Thinking

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• Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.91, tredition

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• ... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Soul, Orthodox

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• When the rare chance comes, seize it
  To do the rare deed.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Chance

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Heaven

  1853 Poems: A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171-4.

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• God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Needs, Gaps, Crisis

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.57, tredition

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• O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Brother, Prayer, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

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• And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

  Christopher Smart

  Achievement, Done, Determined

  'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85

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• I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dust, Age, Noise

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

  Emily Dickinson

  Firsts, Spots, Manufacturing

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.118, First Avenue Editions

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• Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stress, Fighting, Men

  "The College Graduate and Public Life" (1894) See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 5; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why I'm always humble, humbleness is a brave man's obligation, since he knows what it takes to accomplish a great deed

  Renzo Gracie

  Humble, Men, Brave

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• Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

  Dolores del Rio

  Spiritual, Years, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Scapegoat, Daybreak

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

  Criss Jami

  Tired, Sight, People

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

  John R. Rice

  Evil, Speed

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.216, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

  Arthur Lismer

  Art, Believe, Belief

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• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving Up, Real

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• Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

  Umar

  Taken, Accounts

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• Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

  George Eliot

  Children, May, Action

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the term "deed." Many other spiritual beings use the term "virtue." Karma, te, deed, and virtue are the same thing but in different words. To understand karma is to understand all of these words.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Christian, Spiritual

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• Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

  David Helvarg

  Office, Epa, Administration

  Grist magazine, January 03, 2005.

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• Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Struggle, Heaven

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• We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Monsters, Lasts, Bears

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