If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance. — Ibn Rajab Copy Share Image
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom?Do overgenerous deeds,act beyond reimbursement.Kind without compensation.Do a deed for which you cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image