Good Deeds Quotes - Page 7

• As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.

  Spark Matsunaga

  Deeds, May, Seems

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• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Beautiful, Fashion

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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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• We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Deeds, Faces

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Worry

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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Sister, Brother, Kindness

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Deeds, Wealth

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• The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

  Hasan of Basra

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Islamic

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• It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

  Brendan Behan

  Deeds, Forget, Poor

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• We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Islamic, Winning

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• I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.

  Umar

  Wisdom, Islamic, Offering

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

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Deeds, Gains, Calculus

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

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• A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Worry, Effort

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• The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Arrogant, Deeds, Sin

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• Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

  Edgar Magnin

  Deeds, Determined, Emotion

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• Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Christian, Spiritual, Attitude

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• And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Believe, Simple

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Monsters, Deeds, Pay

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Grudge

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

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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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• If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Deeds, Repent

  'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 5, sc. 3, l. [189]

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• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Deeds Done, Truth Is

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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• In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

  Charlaine Harris

  Ties, People, Debt

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel”, p.150, Hachette UK

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