Deeds Quotes · Page 29

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

— Oswald Chambers

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

— Robert Frost

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, whjle others judge us by what we have already done.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

— Thomas a Kempis

If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

— Pope Francis

Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most…

— Muhammad

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the…

— Volker Ullrich

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through…

— Ann Radcliffe

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard…

— Anonymous

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the…

— William Least Heat-Moon

We come to the wise One through good deeds.It is important that we keep ourselves physically fit to do good deeds at…

— Zoroastrianism

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable…

— Arthur Lismer

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it…

— E. M. Forster

Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do,…

— Elias Lyman Magoon

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are…

— Meister Eckhart

Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds,…

— William Matthews

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself…

— Anne Desclos

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not…

— Leo Tolstoy

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

— Anatole France

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

— Rosa Parks

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

— Dolly Parton

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

— Jonathan Sacks

Be good and have good deeds with othes ans you demand from others for yourself,,,

— Jawad Mehmood

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

— Bodhidharma

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

— Edgar Magnin

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

— Max Muller

Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

— Margaret Preston

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

— Dodie Smith

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

— Dante Alighieri