Deeds Quotes - Page 21

• Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

  Rachel Holmes

  Action, Eleanor, Pragmatic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. "It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.

  Brené Brown

  Strong, Life Changing, Men

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• It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Vanity, Grace, Principles

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• People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

  Meister Eckhart

  People, Worry, Way

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• I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their deeds. And my parents taught me through the stories of their lives. And I don't take any credit for the things that they did or the things that they experienced, but they made a great impression on me.

  Samuel Alito

  Parent, Stories, Credit

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

  Gary Zukav

  Impact, Determined, Intention

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda of the deed', and that this propaganda of the deed would rouse people up, give them confidence to rise up. Another section believed 'No, it was not by seeing something happen that people get confidence, but it's by acting', in other words, the movements must go among the people and produce small struggles, bigger struggles, to give people greater and greater confidence.

  Vijay Prashad

  Struggle, People, Giving

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Heroic Deeds, Netherlands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  I Love Him, Golden

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.152, e-artnow

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• There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.

  Jennifer Youngs

  Inspirational, Action, Importance

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• Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Gratitude, Two, Ungrateful

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• Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.

  Allan Lokos

  Fear, Emotion

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• Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• God values deeds according to their intentions. For it is said, "The Lord grant unto you according to your heart" (Ps. 19:5) ... Therefore, whoever wants to do something but can't is considered as having done it by God, who sees the intentions of our hearts. This applies to both good and evil deeds alike.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

  Pope Gregory I

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.

  Judah the Prince

  Sin

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• Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cells, People, Church

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

  Malcolm X

  Race, White, Doomed

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• [The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Color

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Years, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Monsters, Needs, Accomplished

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.

  Max Lucado

  People, Kind, Salvation

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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