Deeds Quotes · Page 19

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

— John Webster

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

— Moliere

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

— Saadi

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be…

— Ashleigh Murray

“The greatest of all deeds is to love; love thy God and thy neighbour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

— Abraham Kuyper

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of…

— Victor Hugo

When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

— Nouman Ali Khan

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected…

— Martin Delany

When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need.…

— Russell M. Nelson

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the…

— Vivian Vande Velde

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

— Gautama Buddha

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon…

— Charles Spurgeon

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds…

— Aeschylus

Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is…

— Saint Basil

The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and…

— John Milton

That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit…

— Lorrie Moore

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in…

— Dinesh D'Souza

A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject…

— Martha Finley

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Lord Himself reveals the Path, He Himself is the Doer of deeds.

— Guru Gobind Singh

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

— George Herbert

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

— Alexander Lowen

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

— Anonymous

Deeds are the mirror of the pastwhich no one wants to see themselves

— Mak_786

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

— Laozi

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

— Mother Teresa

I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?

— Charlie Flynn

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

— Gautama Buddha

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

— Alexander Smith

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

— Robert Cialdini

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

— Nelson Mandela

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

— Hesiod

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

— Marcus Aurelius