Good Deeds Quotes - Page 12

• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Character, Feet, People

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• Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

  Samuel Beckett

  Achievement, Parent, Leaving

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

  Rahman Baba

  World, Deeds, Fruit

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• Not even death can wipe out our good deeds

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Wipe, Deeds

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• Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

  Christina Rossetti

  Good Life, Deeds, Goodness

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.266, OUP Oxford

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• If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

  David G. McAfee

  Prayer, Looks, World

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• Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Evil, Sloth

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.5673, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

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• We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Deeds, Good Things

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.24, Discovery House

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• Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

  D. A. Carson

  Trying, Deeds, Sin

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• Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

  Napoleon Hill

  Deeds Done, Sun, Lost

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.54, Penguin

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• After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Prayer, Meditation, Decision

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• In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Dirt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mother, Moving, Thinking

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

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• Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.

  Lord Acton

  Strong, Ignorance, Men

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Lord Acton's opening statement of his speech on February 28, 1877; later quoted in "The History of Freedom and Other Essays" edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 1907.

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• The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

  Max Lucado

  Church, Deeds, Shows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• A good deed hidden in silence dies.

  Pindar

  Silence, Deeds, Dies

  "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 121; p. 387, 1997.

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• Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Helping Others, Care, Deeds

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• He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.77, Penguin

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• Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

  Mark Twain

  Hypocrisy, Papa, Doe

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.433, GENERAL PRESS

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• Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Forgiving, Deeds, Sin

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• Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Deeds, Morality, Objects

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

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