Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. โ J. R. R. Tolkien
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. โ Plutarch
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. โ Miguel de Cervantes
To generous souls every task is noble. โ Euripides
Great acts are made up of small deeds. โ Lao Tzu
Great acts are made up of small deeds. โ Lao Tzu
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.) โ Henry Royce
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues โ Agesilaus II
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesnโt live off fame, but rather deeds. โ Dejan Stojanovic
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. โ Aristotle
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds. โ Alexandre Dumas
Short Deeds Quotes
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does. โ Martin Luther
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. โ John Burroughs
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed. โ Zoroaster
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. โ Marcus Aurelius
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. โ Ross Perot
Words are one thing, deeds are quite another. โ Ivan Bunin
Words Without Deeds Quotes
Words without deeds are worthless. โ Che Guevara
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle โ Nhat Hanh
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide. โ D. Elton Trueblood
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. โ Frederick W. Faber
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. โ Jon Corzine
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful. โ Aeschylus
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. โ Etty Hillesum
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. โ Jon Corzine
What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. โ William Shakespeare
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect. โ Abdu'l-Bahรก
All your wounds from craving love
Exist because of heroic deeds. โ Hafez
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. โ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. โ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. โ Alberto Manguel
Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter. โ Geert Wilders
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. โ Walt Whitman
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard. โ William Ellery Channing
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times. โ Charlton Heston
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed. โ Karl Kraus
Good Deeds Quotes
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. โ Friedrich Nietzsche
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. โ Lev S. Vygotsky
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. โ Zoroaster
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. โ Maimonides
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. โ Ignatius of Loyola
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. โ Leo Tolstoy
Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. โ Abu Bakr
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. โ Al-Shafiโi
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. โ Saint Augustine
Kind Deeds Quotes
I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others. โ Grace Kelly
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love. โ Peter Jackson
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds. โ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who plants kindness gathers love. โ Saint Basil
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. โ George Matthew Adams
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. โ Lao Tzu
To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe. โ Omar Khayyam
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! โ Lawrence G. Lovasik
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. โ Chinese Proverbs
A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah. โ Bilal Philips
There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need. โ Evangeline Booth
Doing good deeds, it's not about the attention or anything. I just think it's the right thing to do. โ MrBeast
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. โ Mary Faustina Kowalska
The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen โ Max Lucado
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy. โ Leonard Sweet
Anything positive you do will be remembered by the world as a good Emirati deed, but any negative step you make, will reflect on your country. So you have a responsibility of protecting your country's image, especially when you are abroad. โ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it. โ Ibn Rajab
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. โ Louis Auchincloss
Being Noble Quotes
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. โ John Lennon
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. โ Julian of Norwich
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. โ Elijah Wood
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school โ John Amos Comenius
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings. โ Mary Oliver
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
That you have no time to criticise others,
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
And too happy to permit the presence of trouble. โ Christian D. Larson
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity. โ Etty Hillesum
Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I โ William Wallace
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. โ Kahlil Gibran
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people. โ Emiliano Zapata
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them. โ Woodrow Wilson
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? โ Winston Churchill
A noble cause does not need to relentlessly smear its critics. โ David O. Sacks
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. โ Jack H. Goaslind
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before โ Joshua Chamberlain
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that. โ Ray Anderson
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. โ Edmund Burke
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. โ George Weah
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes. โ Winston Churchill
No Good Deed Quotes
I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise. โ Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. โ Marcus Aurelius
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. โ Clare Boothe Luce
The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare. โ J. Oswald Sanders
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. โ William Feather
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. โ Orison Swett Marden
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you. โ Tom Lehrer
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned. โ Confucius
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone elseโs day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. โ Shari Arison
Nobleness Quotes
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oฦ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. โ Rumi
You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins. โ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. โ Charles Darwin
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given. โ Wintley Phipps
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey. โ Melanie Klein
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. โ Abdu'l-Bahรก
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. โ Albertus Magnus
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. โ M. F. K. Fisher
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. โ Lin Yutang
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. โ Thomas Hughes
Noble Man Quotes
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. โ Indian Proverbs
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. โ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. โ Henry Ward Beecher
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts. โ James Allen
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. โ D. Elton Trueblood
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man. โ Primo Levi
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent. โ Sam Peckinpah
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. โ Charles Darwin
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. โ Savitri Devi
Every Good Deed Quotes
Life is a book, and every day that we live is a new page, so paint every page of your life with amazing colors of good deeds and amazing adventures. โ Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. โ Seraphim of Sarov
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face. โ Dale Carnegie
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. โ Jamaica Kincaid
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms Iโd done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret. โ Clive Barker
For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded. โ T. S. Eliot
Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost. โ Unknown
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. โ Shari Arison
Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray. โ Omar Suleiman
If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered. โ David G. McAfee
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. โ Lal Bahadur Shastri
Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another. โ Clare of Assisi
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? โ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. โ Florence Scovel Shinn
Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed? โ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed. โ Patrick Pearse
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter. โ Al-Ghazali
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. โ Guru Gobind Singh
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. โ Ali ibn Abi Talib
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. โ Dorothy Day
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. โ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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