Deeds Quotes - Page 9

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.