Deeds Quotes - Page 7

• While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Cute, Sarcastic

  Song: Be Prepared

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Karma, Integrity

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Kindness, Mean

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Made, Produce, Combination

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• Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spring, Buddhism, Law Of Attraction

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• Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Men, Passing Away, Lasts

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• Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

  Edgar Magnin

  Determined, Emotion, Fine

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• My hour at last has come;
  Yet not ingloriously or passively
  I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
  Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

  Homer

  Lasts, Firsts, Hours

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.271

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• For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace

  1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

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• Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

  Zoroaster

  Three, Good Thoughts, Turns

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• Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Today, Eternity, Harvest

  Ebenezer Elliott (1850). “The Poems of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.264

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• Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

  William Shakespeare

  Secret, Mind, Trouble

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Fate, Destiny

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• As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Deeds Done, Transcendentalism, Good Deeds

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Life Changing, Buddhism

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle

  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

  Albert Einstein

  Fear, Attention

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

  Walter Raleigh

  Vanity, Talking, Talk Is Cheap

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• But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

  Theodore Bikel

  Children, Israel, Hymns

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• Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

  Allan Bloom

  People, Form, Produce

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Honest people don't hide their deeds.

  Emily Bronte

  Honesty, Reality, People

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Deeds Done, Good Deeds

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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