Deeds Quotes · Page 28

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

— Elvis Presley

Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

— Umar

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

— Dorothy Parker

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…

— Isaiah Berlin

We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

— Dillon Burroughs

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

— Anonymous

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

— Joseph Joubert

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All…

— Serge King

“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with…

— Ameen Rihani

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer…

— Davy Jones

If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God…

— Sarada Devi

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or…

— Albert Pike

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live…

— Christian D. Larson

When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to…

— David Petraeus

The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds…

— Gautama Buddha

All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but…

— Anonymous

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone…

— Michael J. Sullivan

It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time…

— Thomas McKean

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

— Sophocles

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

— Christopher Paolini

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

— Douglas Coupland

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

— Ovid

whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

— Johanna Spyri

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

— Confucius

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

— Nigel Rees

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

— Anonymous

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

— Russell Conwell

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds

— William Congreve

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

— Albert Camus

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises ..

— Ariel Sharon

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov