Good Deeds Quotes - Page 8

• I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Please Me, Deeds, Please

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  School, Loss, Tears

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1131, Delphi Classics

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• Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Gratitude, Blessed, Grateful

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3310, Delphi Classics

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• Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Men, Two

  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Talking, Feelings

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• I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.

  Sophie Monk

  Past, Guy, Deeds

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• I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Opportunity, Receiving, Deeds

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The memory of a good deed lives.

  Aesop

  Memories, Deeds

  Aesop (2011). “Aesop's Fables 01-30 (伊索寓言（第一篇至第三十篇）)”, p.415, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

  John Piper

  Christian, Passion, Evil

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• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

  Philippa Gregory

  Determination, Believe, Responsibility

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• What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

  Haven Kimmel

  Girl, Kind Deeds, Clothes

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.193, Broadway Books

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• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

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• Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations

  "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

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• The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Feelings, World, Deeds

  "God Hides in Plain Sight: How to See the Sacred in a Chaotic World". Book by Dean Nelson, September 1, 2009.

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• What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Deeds, Tiny

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.61, Google Publishing

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• Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspiration, Dark, Light

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• Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

  Mark Twain

  Doe, Deeds, Want

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• As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Agreement

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Deeds And Words, Kind

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Kind Deeds

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• Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

  Frederick William Faber

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

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• To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

  Dave Hunt

  Prayer, Rejection, Grace

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