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“All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

Mean Littles Past Opportunity Race Greater Progress Sacrifice Duty Performances Deeds Noble Foolish Glorious Wiser Sublime Discharge

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.”

Love Is Greater Cost Deeds Proof Our Love

Author:Mother Teresa

“A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.”

Values Greater Deeds Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”

Men Action Desire Grows Greater Deeds Great Men Tranquility Calmness Plunge Suspended Waterfalls Composure

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.”

Source: Club and society addresses

“Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.”

Greater Alive Advice Promise Expectations Deeds Stirring

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.”

Men Life Wells Long Enough Desire Evil Greater Deeds Good Deeds Long Life Live Well Desire To Live

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.”

Thinking Believe Dream Desire Humanity Hours Greater Generations Youth Filled Deeds Enthusiasm Dawn Height Thinker Thirst New Generation Doers Intoxication

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.”

Giving Whole Bits Poor Greater Charity Deeds Bread Abundance Famine Fertility High Prices

Author:Christine de Pizan

“What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?”

Spirit Greater Deeds Spread Fulfillment Nonviolence Vow

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.”

People Men Way Enjoy Greater Duty Praise Fellows Prosperity Deeds Thanks Enjoyed Fellow Man Giver Solemn Heartfelt

Author:Theodore Roosevelt