Deeds Quotes - Page 3

• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Men, Birth

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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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• For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Good Deeds, Lost

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• When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Character, Honor, Witness

  "Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Veribus Explicatæ". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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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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• 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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• Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Weed, Flower, Marijuana

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

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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

  Edgar Cayce

  Feelings, Feeling Lost, Guides

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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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• 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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• 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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• Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ambition, Advice

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• Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  A. E. Housman

  Humorous, Hands, World

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

  Quintus Ennius

  Daring, Worthy, Foe

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• We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

  Wickedness, Sin, Committed

  "Royal couple to acknowledge 'sins'". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2005.

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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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• One brave deed makes no hero.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sports, Military, Hero

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Religious, Jesus, Twilight

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• It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Peace, Powerful

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• Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

  Amelia Earhart

  Home, Reality, Chinese

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• When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

  Zhuangzi

  Deeds And Words, World, Transformation

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• The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fiction, Doers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

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