Deeds Quotes - Page 16

• The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

  African Spir

  Men, Enlightening, Scene

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

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• the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Friends, People, Would Be

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.391, Wildside Press LLC

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• Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Secret Love, Silence, Wonder

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• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

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• If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Noble, Common

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• The words you've bandied are sufficient;
  'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
  [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
  Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sufficient

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• The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Might, Can Do, Manly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Struggle, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

  Craig L. Rice

  Substance, Action

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• Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

  Steven Weber

  Integrity, Democracy, Sells

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)

  Chanakya

  Love Is, Political

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• Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

  Francisco Leon

  Motivational, Lying, Thinking

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• I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.

  George W. Bush

  Jesus, Humor, Helping Others

  The "Jesus Day" Proclamation by George W. Bush, www.pbs.org. March 17, 2000.

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• Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

  Aristotle

  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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• I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Deeds Done, Tragedy

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

  Kresley Cole

  Action, Speak, Ifs

  Kresley Cole (2015). “Dead of Winter”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

  Jules Verne

  Character, Past, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last  There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Real, Deeds Done

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Squares

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

  Steven Erikson

  Compassion, Justice, Promise

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• Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Character, Feet, People

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• In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.

  Kevin Hart

  Religious, Husband, Coffee

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, People, Evil

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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