Deeds Quotes - Page 38

• Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Past, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Doe, Common

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• Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Neighbor, Said

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• In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Believe, Hands, Volunteer

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.167, Revell

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• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Book, Reading

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• Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

  Grenville Kleiser

  Love, Life, Family

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

  Maria Theresa

  Men, Race, Honorable Man

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• Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

  Homer

  Doers, Mental Health, Speakers

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.3216, Delphi Classics

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• If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Love Is, Miracle

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.69, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Miracle, Today

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Attitude, Doors

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• If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Ifs

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• Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Philosophy, Book, Fire

  Neil Armstrong's letter to the children of Troy, Michigan on the opening of its Public Library (1971), as quoted in "Why Libraries Matter: Letters to the Children of Troy, Michigan (From 1971)" by Lucas Reilly on Mental Floss, July 3, 2012.

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• I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Promise, Would Be, World

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2012

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• I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.

  Grace Kelly

  Attitude, Memories, Helping Others

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

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• We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds

  Mark E. Petersen

  Punishment, Chinese, Saint

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• To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry - but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Giving Up, Hands, Indulge In

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• It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed.

  Wess Stafford

  Powerful, Children, People

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.191, WaterBrook

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• Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds.

  Sylvia Browne

  Grateful, Friendship Love, Looks

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• I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?

  Charlie Flynn

  Believe, Mean, Boxing

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• Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Men, Simplicity

  "Of Personal Merit", Aphorism 17, 1688.

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• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Fall

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.

  Nicholas Grimald

  Life, Pain, Wind

  Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Vaux Baron Vaux (1854). “Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst”, p.210

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• When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Children

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• If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

  Karl Marx

  Selfish, Sacrifice, People

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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