Top 100 Great Deeds Quotes
#1. Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao-Tzu
#2. Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
Jack Lovelock
#3. It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch
#4. All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
#6. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
#8. History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Simone De Beauvoir
#9. One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
Peter Kreeft
#10. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks
Herodotus
#11. Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Demosthenes
#13. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
#14. A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.
Jean De La Bruyere
#15. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
#16. The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.
Confucius
#17. The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
Stanley Fish
#18. 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
#20. Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
Alexander Pope
#21. Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
Brennan Manning
#22. Pure love is capable of great deeds, and it is not broken by difficulty or adversity. As it remains strong in the midst of great difficulties, so too it perseveres in the toilsome and drab life of each day. It
Maria Faustina Kowalska
#23. By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
Homer
#24. Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
Homer
#25. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
#26. 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
#27. First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.
Nostradamus
#28. To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#29. It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
William Shakespeare
#30. May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. Great deeds begin in the mind,
extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,
and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
Confucius
#34. My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much.
Hugh Jackman
#35. In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#36. There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments ... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.
Kelly Keaton
#37. That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.
Joe Klein
#38. Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. Such is life, marked by the ticking of the clock and the call of the alarm until the day it all falls into perpetual silence. For most of us, certainly for this boy, life is not composed of great deeds, but of small actions, and that's okay. It's the best I can give and I like it this way.
Gillibran Brown
#40. Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
Stendhal
#41. Friend is a very small word,
A little sound we make,
For one who is true, one who will do,
Great deeds for friendship's sake.
Brian Jacques
#42. Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Baltasar Gracian
#44. The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.
Russell Conwell
#46. The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.
Mary Ritter Beard
#47. A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
George Sarton
#48. It is necessary that ... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds ...
Arthur Lismer
#49. Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.
Russell H. Conwell
#50. Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
Horace Mann
#51. Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
Jean De La Bruyere
#52. Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.
Wallace D. Wattles
#53. The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this
that we manufacture everything there except men.
John Ruskin
#54. Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
Colin Powell
#55. Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.
Stanislaw Lem
#57. Warriors were more interested in learning what great deeds she had done before arriving.
Joseph R. Lallo
#59. And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.
- Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Terry Pratchett
#61. I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
Charlton Heston
#62. Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
Blaise Pascal
#63. The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
Henry Miller
#65. The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#66. Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.' 'Very
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#70. People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#71. Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.
John F. Kennedy
#72. With wisdom in your mind,
you can perform great deeds.
With faith in your heart,
you can perform extraordinary deeds.
With love in your soul,
you can perform remarkable deeds.
With God in your life,
you can perform supernatural deeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
Albert Camus
#74. To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
Virginia Woolf
#75. When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand
Leo Tolstoy
#77. Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
Therese Of Lisieux
#79. It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
John Of The Cross
#80. What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#81. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#84. For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
Henry Miller
#85. Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!
Robert Browning
#86. It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
Seneca The Younger
#87. My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.
Thomas Campion
#88. For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
Victor Hugo
#89. All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#90. A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya
#91. Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.
Ellen Key
#92. Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan Bloom
#94. Those who do deeds sovereignly great are always sure of being served by somebody in the multitude.
Victor Hugo
#95. Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
#96. Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. Some men profess a great deal; but we must not believe any one unless we see that his deeds answer to what he says.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. His deeds and life are more important to me than his talk, the gesture of his hand is more important to me than his opinions. Not in speech or thought do I regard him as a great man, but in his deeds and life.
Hermann Hesse
#100. My god
how gentle you are with me
in spite of my great ignorance
and how merciful You are with me
in spite of my ugly deeds
Ibn Ata Allah
