Deeds Quote by David Gemmell Download Open image “Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.” — David Gemmell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deeds Every man Men Reason Selfish Selfishness
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every person is selfish by nature, we should understand it, otherwise for whole life, we will blame people for selfish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished,… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing;… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford 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 deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image