Deeds Quotes · Page 23

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

— Homer

Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.

— Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

— Albert Camus

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

— David Jeremiah

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

— Sophie Swetchine

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

— Grenville Kleiser

“The real change starts with the individual, because each person's action either heals the world, or further plunges it downhill.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

— Juvenal

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the…

— Gary Zukav

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their…

— Thomas Sowell

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with…

— Max Muller

We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course…

— Ronald Reagan

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but…

— William Greider

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the…

— John Owen

Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher…

— Wuhayb ibn al-Wird

Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have…

— Derek R. Audette

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not…

— Sydney J. Harris

Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a…

— Edgar Guest

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not…

— Samuel Smiles

... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live… Our…

— Dalai Lama

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

— Doug Dorst

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

— Herman Melville

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

— William Shakespeare

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

— Anonymous

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds…

— Henry David Thoreau

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

— Bill Vaughan

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

— Leon Wieseltier

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

— William Kingdon Clifford

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

— Anonymous

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

— Plutarch

Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.

— Kim Jong-un

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

— Zhuangzi

If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

— H. Burke Peterson

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

— William Shakespeare

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

— Jean-Paul Sartre