Great Deeds Quotes
50 quotes by 40 authors
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
— Allan Bloom
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving…
— Albert Camus
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Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us…
— Frederick William Faber
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
— Albert Camus
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Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast…
— Russell Conwell
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We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
— Jack Lovelock
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To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that…
— Christian D. Larson
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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 the people involved.…
— Colin Powell
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for…
— Arthur Compton
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
— Pindar
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
— Herodotus
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In great deeds something abides.
— Joseph Chamberlain
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Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
— Stanley Fish
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
— George William Curtis
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
— Homer
Who Wrote These Great Deeds Quotes
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