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  • To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

    Deeds   Virtue  
  • Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

    Deeds   Dies  
  • Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

    Mistake   Giving   Doubt  
    Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”
  • Man is remembered by his deeds.

    Men   Deeds   Remembered  
  • I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.

    Crow   Body   Legs  
  • Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

    Blood   Deeds   Hot  
    William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.589
  • It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

  • if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

    Deeds   Rewards   Harder  
  • Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

    Justice   Heaven   Deeds  
  • All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

    Men   Events   Deeds  
    1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.36.
  • Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.765, Booklassic
  • Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.137, Lulu.com
  • An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

    Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576
  • We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

    "Gandhi on Non-Violence".
  • My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn

    Horse   Father   Fall  
    J. R. R. Tolkien (1994). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, Thorndike Pr
  • If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

    H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
  • Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

    Done   Deeds   Sake  
  • Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.

  • In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.

    Morning   Night   Purpose  
    St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1550, Moody Publishers
  • A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.

  • Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

    Life   Time   Memories  
    "'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.
  • Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

    "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by F. A. Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism", p. 194, 1967.
  • Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

    "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.
  • My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

    Giving   Would Be   Deeds  
    Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press
  • To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

  • 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?

    Wisdom   Peace   Fun  
    "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.
  • This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.49, Macmillan
  • He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

    Wisdom   Deeds   Masters  
    Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”
  • 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.

  • The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

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