Deeds Quotes · Page 19

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

— Mother Teresa

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

— Hesiod

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

— Thomas Aquinas

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

— Elizabeth Kostova

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

— Swami Vivekananda

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

— Harold S. Kushner

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of…

— Maximus the Confessor

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

— Marcus Aurelius

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't…

— Damon Galgut

Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar…

— Rebecca Ruter Springer

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when…

— Aeschines

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my…

— Og Mandino

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are…

— Napoleon Hill

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as…

— Che Guevara

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment…

— Edward Abbey

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty…

— Grenville Kleiser

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should…

— William Shakespeare

God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to…

— Dallas Willard

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no…

— Shari Arison

“Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in…

— John Steinbeck

You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something…

— Swami Vivekananda

... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done…

— Seraphim of Sarov

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory,…

— Miroslav Volf

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

— Anonymous

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

— James Joyce

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

— William Shakespeare

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

— Rudolf Steiner

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

— Thomas Overbury

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

— Richard Brautigan

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

— Moliere

“The greatest of all deeds is to love; love thy God and thy neighbour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be…

— Ashleigh Murray

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

— Saadi

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

— Marcus Aurelius

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

— Harry S. Truman

“In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.”

— Normandi Ellis

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

— Napoleon Hill