Deeds Quotes - Page 26

• I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Deeds Done, Forget, Good Deeds

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.123, Beacon Press

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• Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Daughter, Phones, Years

  "The Middle Place". Book by Kelly Corrigan, www.today.com. 2005.

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• How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Liars, Lying, People

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.536, Hamilton Books

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• Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Morning

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• The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dark, Past, Mirrors

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Peace, Hero

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• Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Shields, Red

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.567, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Gains, Good Deeds, Calculus

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.49, Everyman's Library

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• You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Strong, Ocean

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

  George Eliot

  Dream, Names, Feelings

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• Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Being Strong, Greatness, Men

  "Profiles In Courage".

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• The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Nurse, Silence

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• A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Teacher, Giving, Parent

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1530, Open Road Media

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• And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Brave, Splits

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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• No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Good Deeds

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• You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure from one of pain. Sometimes, we can barely read pain. Neither a barometer nor a guide, pain can mislead us. Even in the body, the laws of chain reactions can be false. This is why people always want a second opinion.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Pain, Law, Mislead Us

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• The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to help with that." My minion walked near me, needing no horse to move swiftly. Upon hearing his name, he said, "I would perform the deed with great relish and much suffering on your part, mistress." "You can't put a price on that kind of loyalty," I told Kiyo.

  Richelle Mead

  Loyalty, Horse, Moving

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.72, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Moving, Passion

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

  Emily Bronte

  Remember You, Remembers You, Forget

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.531, Penguin

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• I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Perfect, Horror

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.137, Taylor Trade Publications

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• One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Thinking, Funny Marriage, Wish

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Men, Hands

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Space, Trout, May

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Calm, Sin, Oblivion

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

  Brennan Manning

  People, Life And Death, Would Be

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