Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

There are hearts to gladden... kind words to say... gifts to be given... deeds to be done.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

A good deed is the best prayer.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.