Good Deeds Quotes - Page 2

• Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

  Douglas Horton

  Thinking, Example, Deeds

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• When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

  Islom Karimov

  Kind Deeds, Justice, Liberty

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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• Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Religious, Hurt

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• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Deeds

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.41, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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  God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Deeds, Enjoy

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• The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.

  John Gerstner

  God, Sin, Good Work

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• Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

  Philip James Bailey

  Men, Thinking, Kind Deeds

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.11

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• Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Accompany You, Accompany Us, Deeds

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• Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Cute, Sarcastic

  Song: Be Prepared

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• Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  Sallust

  Kings, Honesty, Soldier

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• Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

  William Feather

  Life, Thank You, Appreciation

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  That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

  Francois Rabelais

  Memories, Men, Kind Deeds

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• If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Funny, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Life, Happiness, Real

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• Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

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

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  Abraham Cahan

  Reality, Other Worlds, Tangible

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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