Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is what life is all about.

William Shakespeare

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Confucius

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Jesse Jackson

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Wallace Stegner

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

Saul Bellow

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

William Langewiesche

So much of who we are is where we have been.

Nate Berkus

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

Alan Rickman

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Beth Moore

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

Bryant H. McGill

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Brene Brown

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Debbie Ford

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

Willie Pearson

King was persistent in her words and deeds of encouragement. She never wavered from her stance of non-violence as the only viable option for change.

Richard John Neuhaus

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person...

Zhuangzi

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

William Morris

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Joan Baez

The search is in the doing.

Lloyd Alexander

Count the deed, not the thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]

Rig Veda

The leaders who do good deeds reside in the hearts of the people.