Deeds Quotes - Page 2

• So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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• Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Real, Everyday, Literature

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• Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

  Elie Wiesel

  Deeds And Words, Silence, Grace

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Demise, Immortal

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Monsters, Pay, Hours

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• In great deeds something abides.

  Joseph Chamberlain

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• ...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, People, Mind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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

  Walter Annenberg

  Good Deeds

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Accompany You, Accompany Us, Action

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

  Edgar Cayce

  Feelings, Feeling Lost, Guides

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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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• 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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• Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Light, Shadow

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3

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

  Horace

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Deeds Done

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

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