Deeds Quotes · Page 18

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

— Jose Marti

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Bahá'u'lláh

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

— Douglas Horton

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

— Sufyan al-Thawri

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

— Donald P. Ryan

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

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Eric Swanson

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as…

— Jon Corzine

Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of…

— Theodore Dreiser

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence…

— George William Curtis

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of…

— Joe Klein

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they…

— Xenophanes

Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us,…

— Gregory Palamas

And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades…

— Barack Obama

A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet…

— John Kendrick Bangs

The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed…

— Polybius

That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is…

— George W Truett

Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been…

— Thomas Sowell

“This faith...is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more…

— Lloyd C. Douglas

To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned.…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Kresley Cole

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

— Michael Mullen

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

— Bahá'u'lláh

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Ben Jonson

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

— Napoleon Hill

“In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.”

— Normandi Ellis

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

— Harry S. Truman

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Horace

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

— Dean Frazer

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

— Tom Lehrer

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Anonymous