Deeds Quotes
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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Gautama Buddha
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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
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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
Thomas A. Edison
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Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.
Eric Swanson
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The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller
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The colours of her heart represented the deeds she'd done, both good and bad, but the faint smell of treacle told her that, overall, she had a sweet heart.
Carrie Fletcher
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Justice is a constant uprightness in words and in deeds.
Alexander Hume
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A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
George Sarton
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
Nigel Rees
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"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."
Charles Dickens
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
Homer
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A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
Albert Camus
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Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.
Ashraf Ghani
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Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Thomas Sowell
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In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
Blaise Pascal
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It's better to have this new deal rather than not to have it. But we do not trust any words or any papers. We are to trust only actions and deeds.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
Sarah Vowell
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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What a wonderful faculty is memory! - the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds - this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
Susanna Moodie
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Seneca the Younger
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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
Russell Baker