It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a mile of joy on someone's… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I protested, 'A man is known by his deeds.' Oh, that's sure,' said Bono. 'Just like a house is known by its… — M. T. Anderson Copy Share Image
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word… — Camilla P Bowles Copy Share Image
...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I'm weird. I still believe that when you do good deeds, you get something back in return. That's why I really enjoy… — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
