Deeds Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.

— Lisa Joy

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

— Kathleen McGowan

“We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition”

— Ilchi Lee

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things…

— George Eliot

The feelings and emotions of a noble person do not merely come and go with the tides; they are there in the first place…

— Anonymous

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…

— Lillian Hellman