Good Deeds Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Beautiful, Fashion

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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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• Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  Zoroaster

  Spiritual, Heaven, Deeds

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• Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ignorance

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Men, Leader

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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• [In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Political, Deeds

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• Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Each of us can be true for just one day--and then one more and then one more after that--until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  One Day, Yards, Deeds

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Deeds Done, Truth Is

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

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• We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Kind Deeds

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• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

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• What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

  Haven Kimmel

  Girl, Kind Deeds, Clothes

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.193, Broadway Books

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• I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

  Philippa Gregory

  Determination, Believe, Responsibility

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• I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Deeds Done, Forget, Grudge

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.123, Beacon Press

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• In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Deeds, Gains, Calculus

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.49, Everyman's Library

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• The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Moving, Passion

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Deeds, Repent

  'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 5, sc. 3, l. [189]

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• Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

  John Piper

  Christian, Passion, Evil

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

  Edgar Magnin

  Deeds, Determined, Emotion

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• Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Men, Two

  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

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