Deeds Quotes

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.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness, True, Done

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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Bad, Lose

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Good, Words, Talking

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

Done, Makes, Means

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Life, True, Friends

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu

Great, Made, Small

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing, State, Fate

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

Great, Thoughts, Often

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Great, Desire

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau

Find, Try, Cannot

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker

Memory, Foolish, Spirits

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Nothing, Words, Speak

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

Great, Done, Small

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

Success, Time, Respect

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

Children, Acts, Mar

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Life, Game, Words

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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

Noble, Concealed, Esteemed

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Heart, Thought

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Words, Left, Tears

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Ashamed, Motives

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman

Destiny, Fate, Grow

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper

Life, Good, Best

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Rosa Parks

Others, Lives, Memories

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch

Good, Great, Everything

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

Great, Art, Book

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma

Good, Evil, Blessings

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