Deeds Quotes · Page 28

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

— Pindar

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

— Jeanne Phillips

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

— Louis Auchincloss

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

— George Eliot

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

— Terry Goodkind

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

— Edmund Spenser

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

— Friedrich Schiller

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

— Emily Dickinson

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before…

— George Herbert

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red…

— Anonymous

Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds…

— Paul Martin

If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front…

— Paul Washer

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the…

— John Lothrop Motley

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are,…

— Thomas Carlyle

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan.…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity…

— Yukio Mishima

We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would…

— Brennan Manning

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's…

— Thomas Campion

Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his…

— Sergey Nechayev

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

— Mae West

“Your achievements die with you. Your deeds live on as your legacy!”

— Manoj Vaz

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

— Jean Paul

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

— Henry David Thoreau

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

— Seneca the Younger

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are people in the world who deserve paradise for their thoughts and hell for their deeds.

— Vikrant Parsai

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

— Soman Chainani

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

— Lech Walesa

It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

— William Shakespeare

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

— Pope Gregory I

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

— Abraham Cahan

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;

— Walt Whitman

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

— Tony Abbott

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

— Oscar Wilde