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Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!
Friedrich Nietzsche
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
Orson Scott Card
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
Leo Tolstoy
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed.
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
Terry Pratchett
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is outside, what is different, what is not itself; and this No is its creative deed.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
