Deeds Quotes - Page 25

• Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

  Winston Churchill

  Doubt, Swept Away

  "Their Finest Hour".

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• Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Men, Joy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult Edition”, p.119, Beacon Press

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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, Good 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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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

  Robert Frost

  Play, Heaven, Needs

  Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem (1992). “Robert Frost: Seasons”, Mjf 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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• Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Perfect, Accomplished, Has Beens

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.163, Baen Books

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• There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

  Ben Okri

  Fighting, People, Heroism

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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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• 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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• For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Destiny, Men, Shapes

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.161, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Pride, Names

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sweet, Mistake, Night

  Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney (1983). “The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974”

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• I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Men, Emotion

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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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 is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Weight, Stones

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• . . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

  L. Frank Baum

  Law, Evil, May

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• Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

  Pythagoras

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• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

  Isaac Asimov

  Spiritual, Atheist, Fear

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam

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• The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mistake, Science

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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• Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Guilt, Tears

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.262, University of Illinois Press

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• Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Lying, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.855, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Reality, Effects

  "Divine Love Story: Birth of a New Revelation" by Laura Weinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2011.

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• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Giving, Inward

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Character

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