Good Deeds Quotes - Page 11

• One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

  Zoroaster

  Prayer, Science, Religion

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• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

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• Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Mistake, Hero

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

  Frank Iero

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Humble

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• Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

  Joshua Harris

  Beautiful, Godly, Men

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.118, Multnomah

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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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• 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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• Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

  Samuel Beckett

  Achievement, Parent, Leaving

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

  Rahman Baba

  World, Deeds, Fruit

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• Not even death can wipe out our good deeds

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Wipe, Deeds

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• Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

  Christina Rossetti

  Good Life, Deeds, Goodness

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.266, OUP Oxford

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• The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Pride, Hands

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

  Audre Lorde

  Rest In Peace, Children, Reading

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• God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Fall, Pride

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

  Thomas Overbury

  Next Day, Fire, Coal

  Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252

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• An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

  Max Muller

  Men, Evil, Doe

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.160, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

  Max Muller

  Men, Long, Evil

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deeds, Ugly, Goodness

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• You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Names, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Deeds, Lost

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• Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

  Laozi

  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Blessing, Expectations, Deeds

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