Good Deeds Quotes - Page 6

• if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Deeds, Rewards, Harder

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• Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

  Erich Fromm

  Tyrants, Goal, Enemy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deeds, Admirable, Concealed

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• If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Earth, Deeds

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.

  Kyo

  Deeds

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• Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Deeds, Calm, Sin

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

  Shari Arison

  Positive Thinking, Simple, Deeds Done

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• Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else’s day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

  Shari Arison

  Differences, Kind Deeds, Volunteer

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Vines, Deeds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.

  Ibn Rajab

  Asking, Deeds, Believer

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• If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Parent, Would Be, Deeds

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• Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.

  Eusebius

  School, Writing, Doctrine

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• The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Soul, Purpose, Deeds

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• Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Garden, Growth

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• I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

  George Clooney

  Car, Deeds, Flight

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• Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Kindness, Men, Service Culture

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.346

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• In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Four

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• Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Thinking, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.83, Manonmani Publishers

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• Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Work, Mistake, Care

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.178

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• The cops drive by to do some more good deeds
  A young black male spits a sunflower seed
  in the air.

  Dred Scott

  Air, Hip Hop, Black

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• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Book, Reading

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