So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it… — Al-Tabarani Copy Share Image
Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor,… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There are three levels of service. The highest level is that of one who performs good deeds the whole day and yet… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else… — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
“The greatest deed is to love the Lord God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul and with all… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
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
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
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
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Man is seldom judged on the basis of his good deeds. If bad in past the good in present doesn’t matter ;… — Mehnaz Ansari Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man… — Shannon Delany Copy Share Image
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow,… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
