Deeds Quotes - Page 34

• He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Catholic, Firsts, Holy

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• Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Hands, Catholic, May

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• Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Guilt, Committed, Hesitation

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 8), 44 BC.

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• Words that do not match deeds are not important.

  Che Guevara

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Penguin

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• We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Heart, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.163, Parallax Press

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• PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Evil

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• A bad deed always brings a punishment.

  Johanna Spyri

  Punishment

  Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.122, Xist Publishing

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• There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Heart, Men

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• Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Moving, Soul

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• Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Evil, Nihilism, Recognition

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Pride, Hands, Effort

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• It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Fall, Islamic

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• The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Simple, Action, Language

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• The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Play, Soul

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

  Homer

  Discovery, Done, Aids

  Homer (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Evil, Possibility, Creeds

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Injury, Ahimsa

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.175, Manonmani Publishers

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• Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Bloody

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.234

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• You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Past, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Home, Years

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• The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Gary Zukav

  Courage, Lying, Moving

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.12, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

  Eric Swanson

  Heart, Religion, News

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• Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Block, Real, Lying

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