Quotes about Deed
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
- Albert Schweitzer
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
- Robert Frost
The ancient Vedic texts known as the Upanishads declare, "You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny." Our destiny ultimately comes from the deepest level of desire and also from the deepest level of intention. The two are intimately linked to each other.
- Deepak Chopra
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
- Deepak Chopra
She does not know what she says. Will you ruin her, because she has not wit to help herself? Get up! You could be free instantly. That is the most diabolical deed that ever you did. We are all done for—master, mistress, and servant.
- Emily Bronte
secondly, what the nature of God is. Whatever that nature is discovered to be, the man who would please and obey Him must strive with all his might to be made like unto him. If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
- Epictetus
If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
- Epictetus
Giving birth is definitely a heroic deed, in that it is the giving over of oneself to the life of another.
- Joseph Campbell
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The memory of a good deed lives.
- Aesop