“Good deeds do not wait for time or opportunity. We must do what we should do.”

— Titon Rahmawan

Last update Nov. 30, 2023. History

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“We should do good deeds that touch people’s hearts throughout our lives. Only by setting a good example for others will we become strong.”

Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader

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“Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose (1980)

“We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Thesis 40
Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517)

“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.”

Peter Marshall (1902–1949) American preacher

“We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing.”

Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.

“We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”

Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Variant: We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Source: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

“If through the years we're not to do
Much finer deeds than we have done;
If we must merely wander through
Time's garden, idling in the sun;
If there is nothing big ahead,
Why do we fear to join the dead?Unless to-morrow means that we
Shall do some needed service here;
That tasks are waiting you and me
That will be lost, save we appear;
Then why this dreadful thought of sorrow
That we may never see to-morrow?”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: Just Folks (1917), Living, first and second stanzas.

“Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

Source: The Future Of Life

“We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 75

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