Quote: What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere? Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet
Quote: Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Author: Leonard Cohen 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Quote: Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man. Author: Eliza Cook 1818-1889, British Poet
Quote: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic
Quote: Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Author: Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890, Dutch Painter
Quote: Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Author: Herodotus BC 484-425, Greek Historian
Quote: We are the children of our own deeds. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. Author: Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning Author: Midrash Early Jewish Biblical Commentary
Quote: Mighty in deeds and not in words. Author: Motto
Quote: Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer
Quote: Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination. Author: Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792, British Artist, Critic
Quote: Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. Author: Schines
Quote: Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. Author: Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher
Quote: Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. Author: Dodie Smith
Quote: To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure. Author: The Talmud BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
Quote: As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die. Author: E. T. Trigg
Quote: Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention Author: Source Unknown
Quote: That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet