Deeds Quotes · Page 29

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

— Don McLean

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

— Seneca the Younger

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

— Dallas Willard

Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

— Anonymous

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

— Hiawatha

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in…

— Marcus Aurelius

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

— Chanakya

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

— John Dewey

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

— Theodore Levitt

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word…

— Camilla P Bowles

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from…

— Gore Vidal

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For…

— Robert Frost

Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself…

— George Eliot

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by…

— Jean Giraudoux

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds…

— Henry David Thoreau

I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their…

— Patti Smith

Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the…

— Walter Scott

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.…

— Martin Buber

I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End.…

— Anonymous

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape…

— eleanor roosevelt

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass,…

— Malcolm X

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of…

— John Henry Newman

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

— Bertrand Russell

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

— Joseph Campbell

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

— Elizabeth I

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

— Anonymous

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

— Edwin Arnold

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others.”

— Lisa Schroeder

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

— Abdullah ibn Mubarak

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the…

— Anonymous

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

— William Penn

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

— Andy Stanley

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

— Henry David Thoreau