A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed… — Homer Copy Share Image
Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while… — Imagawa Sadayo Copy Share Image
When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the… — prophet muhammad Copy Share Image
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . . — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
