(341 quotes found)
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.”
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!”
William Shakespeare
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed”
Blaise Pascal
“Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,”
George MacDonald
“Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial”
“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”
Plutarch
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
Herodotus