When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
When we don't like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears,… — Andrew of Crete Copy Share Image
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel… — Louis Riel Copy Share Image
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our becomes what one does.The doer of good deeds will become good and the doer of evil deeds will come evil.Action,the doing… — Hinduism Copy Share Image
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart. — Anuj Copy Share Image
The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
