Best Great Deeds Quotes
50 Great Deeds quotes by 40 unique authors
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great…
— Lady Gregory
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
— Peter Marshall
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
— Plutarch
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What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and…
— C.S. Lewis
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
— Victor Hugo
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In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
— Albert Camus
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Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.
— John F. Kennedy
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
— Brennan Manning
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Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
— Brian Jacques
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Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided…
— Terry Pratchett
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Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
— Swami Vivekananda
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... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
— Charles Reade
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That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization.…
— Joe Klein
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People of great thoughts can become people of great deeds.
— Vikrant Parsai
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. I Promise Myself- To Think Well Of Myself And To Proclaim this Fact To The World, Not In Loud Words, But In Great Deeds!
— MAM
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