Deeds Quotes - Page 2

• Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

  Pindar

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Pindar (1928). “Pythian odes”

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• No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

  Protagoras

  Confidence, Wisdom, Believe

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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Beautiful, Fashion

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• Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

  Jon Corzine

  Reality, Important, Members

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• Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

  Sophocles

  Money, Home, Men

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• It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

  Sophocles

  Care

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• All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

  Walter Annenberg

  Good Deeds

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• In great deeds something abides.

  Joseph Chamberlain

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• Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

  Edward Coke

  Coke, Crime, Invites

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• Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Names, Symbolic Meaning

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.14, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  Edgar Cayce

  Feelings, Feeling Lost, Guides

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• God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

  Pierre Charron

  Wise, Men, World

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• If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Belief, Guidance, Ifs

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

  George William Curtis

  Appreciate, Noble, Approval

  George William Curtis (1894). “From the Easy Chair”

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• Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

  Sophocles

  Communication, Winning, Men

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• We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

  Serge King

  Prayer, Blessing, Web Of Life

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• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  Sallust

  Kings, Honesty, Soldier

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• Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Christian, Holiness, Professors

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• I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

  Kurt Huber

  Spring, Voice, People

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• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Creating, Evil, Enemy

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• We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Powerful, Wife

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• Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.

  Johann Most

  Mean, Writing, Speech

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• An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Evil, Death Penalty, Vengeance

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