Good Deeds Quotes - Page 10

• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

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• Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

  Lord Acton

  Liberty, Deeds, Next

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Evil, Soul

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• Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval. When our good work or good deeds go unrewarded by hoped for praise, we feel like failures so we treat those who denied us our due as betrayers.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expectations

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• Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

  Sholom Rokeach

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Evil

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• Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Kings, Forever, Cabbage

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• There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Dark, Lamps

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• Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Humble

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• No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

  Bill Courtney

  Grace, Deeds, Favors

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.187, Weinstein Publishing

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• In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

  Shadow, World, Body

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• We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Jesus, Deeds, Saved

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• If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

  Pope Gregory I

  Saint, Deeds, Today

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• A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

  Leslye Headland

  Mistake, Focus, Achievement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Vanity, Light

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• Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Pain, Heart, Deeds

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• There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Life, Men, Long

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• I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.

  Patti Smith

  Simple, Thinking, Media

  Source: thehollywoodvoice.com

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• To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

  M. Ageyev

  Done, Deeds, Enjoyed

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• Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

  Jim DeMint

  Jobs, Government, Deeds

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• Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, World

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• Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Deeds, Forgotten

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• A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Girl, Islamic, Boys

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• If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Inspirational, Wise, Christian

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