Deeds Quotes · Page 21

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

— Don Henley

Every thought, word, or deed, either purifies or pollutes the body.

— Harold Klemp

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

— Henrik Ibsen

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

— Thucydides

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

— Debbie Macomber

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

— John Wycliffe

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever…

— Thomas Carlyle

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them,…

— Anonymous

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well…

— Diane Watson

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in…

— Ibn Rajab

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we…

— Gregory David Roberts

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined…

— Hannah Arendt

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually…

— Henry David Thoreau

Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the…

— Zhi Gang Sha

She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar.…

— E. M. Forster

Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it…

— William Stringfellow

My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes,…

— Yves Klein

What is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life…

— Plato

If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them…

— Pope Gregory I

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Martin Luther

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

— Louis Fischer

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

— Eric Swanson

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

— Baltasar Gracian

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

— Michael Mullen

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

— Kresley Cole

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

— Mother Teresa

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

— Teresa of Avila

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

— Henry David Thoreau

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

— Donald P. Ryan

If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

— Sufyan al-Thawri

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

— Douglas Horton

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds

— Bahá'u'lláh