Noble Deeds quotes:

Send

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. -- Blaise Pascal
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. -- Dodie Smith
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. -- Joshua Chamberlain
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. -- Plutarch
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. -- Aristotle
A noble deed is a step towards heaven. -- J. G. Holland
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence. -- Pindar
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. -- James Lee Burke
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God. -- Bill Vaughan
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. -- Scott Westerfeld
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. -- Henry David Thoreau
The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence. -- Khaleda Zia
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable. -- Pindar
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view. -- J. G. Holland
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing. -- Plutarch
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. -- Aristotle
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery. -- Horace Greeley
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? -- Algernon H. Blackwood
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity. -- Polybius
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it -- Albert Einstein
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? -- Laozi
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. -- Otto von Bismarck
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. -- Homer
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. -- Charles Reade
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. -- George William Curtis
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? -- Alastair Reynolds
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. -- Aeschines
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds. -- Alexandre Dumas

Send