Deeds Quotes · Page 20

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

— Ben Jonson

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

— Benjamin Franklin

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

— Bahá'u'lláh

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

— John Webster

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

— Anonymous

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

— Tom Lehrer

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage…

— Lord Byron

You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they…

— Janet Evanovich

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay?…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there…

— William Shakespeare

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves,…

— Maxim Gorky

You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude…

— Thomas Jefferson

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

— Swami Vivekananda

In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's…

— Paul Washer

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

i have found what you are like the rain (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club…

— Anonymous

Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a…

— Abraham Lincoln

Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and…

— Holly Black

Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the…

— Andy Partridge

I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the…

— Michael Ende

It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

— Dean Frazer

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

— Horace

Deeds are the mirror of the pastwhich no one wants to see themselves

— Mak_786

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

— Anonymous

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

— Alexander Lowen

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

— Laozi

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

— Abraham Kuyper

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

— George Herbert

The Lord Himself reveals the Path, He Himself is the Doer of deeds.

— Guru Gobind Singh

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

— Laozi

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

— Mason Cooley

“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

— Anonymous

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.

— John Dykes