virtuous deeds Quotes

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Had Allah willed He could have made you one community. But … He hath made you as you are. So vie with one another in good works.

Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.

They err … who think that virtue consists of words .. good actions are the glory of virtue.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.