Deeds Quotes · Page 8

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is…

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

— Clare Boothe Luce

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires,…

— Elie Wiesel

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed,…

— Gautama Buddha

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish…

— Timothy Keller

Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed…

— Charlotte Bronte

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

— Jonathan Sacks

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may…

— Robert Penn Warren

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.…

— Martin Buber

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

— Thucydides

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

— Juvenal

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

— Therese of Lisieux

The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word…

— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation…

— Marcus Borg

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

— John Wesley

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which…

— Aristotle

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

— Tom Lehrer

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds…

— Henry David Thoreau

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

— Clarence Jordan

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

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

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

— Arthur C. Clarke