Deeds Quote by Edgar Guest

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working atit and wills it, is exercising theenergies of his…

— William Morris

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man…

— Pope Paul VI

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men, discouraged by their failure to accomplish exactly what they desire, often speak of their lives as purposeless, but it is idle talk, for,…

— John A. Widtsoe

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

— Thomas Aquinas

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all…

— Albert Einstein

If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits…

— James Freeman Clarke

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and…

— George Stanley

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we…

— Olive Schreiner

Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of…

— Edwin Markham