Deeds Quotes - Page 18

• our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

  Craig L. Rice

  Substance, Action

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• Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

  Steven Weber

  Integrity, Democracy, Sells

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

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• Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)

  Chanakya

  Love Is, Political

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• Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

  Aristotle

  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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• I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Deeds Done, Tragedy

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

  Jules Verne

  Character, Past, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Squares

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.

  Kevin Hart

  Religious, Husband, Coffee

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, People, Evil

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.
  [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

  George Herbert

  Wise

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• If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

  Pindar

  Moving, Sea, Voice

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• I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.

  Michael Ende

  Country, Book, Adventure

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• Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Generations, Lifetime, Future Generation

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast”, p.66, Charisma Media

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• Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Responsible, Idle

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• To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

  Miroslav Volf

  Two, Evil, Victory

  Miroslav Volf (2006). “The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

  Bilal Philips

  Husband, Wife, Needs

  FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Dec 28, 2013

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• Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Errors, Harm

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

  John Baillie

  Thinking, Today, Speak

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

  Justin Martyr

  Atheism, Lame, Done

  Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

  Sarah Doudney

  Kindness, May, Way

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• We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Good Deeds, Enjoy

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• Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opiates, Done, Forget

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