Good Deeds Quotes - Page 9

• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle

  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Dream, Kindness, Father

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• Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, Men, Greatest Fear

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster

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• A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Evil, Vampire, Trying

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. 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 desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.12, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

  Eric Swanson

  Heart, Religion, News

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• Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Evil, Deeds, Possibility

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Deeds Done, Transcendentalism, Doing Good

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, Deeds, Rewards

  "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, California Books Inc., (p. 36), August 7, 2014.

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• Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Hands, Catholic, Deeds

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• The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Soul, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.81, Ardent Media

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• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  Victor Hugo

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

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• If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Grateful, Deeds, Rewards

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• The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Deeds, Helping

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1949). “Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts”

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• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Men, Decision

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• A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Girl, Islamic, Boys

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• Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Deeds, Forgotten

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• Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, World

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• When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  Maimonides

  Evil, Balance, Doe

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• If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Inspirational, Wise, Christian

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• A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

  Jim DeMint

  Jobs, Government, Deeds

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• I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

  Leslye Headland

  Mistake, Focus, Achievement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Vanity, Light

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