Deeds Quotes · Page 42

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless…

— Epictetus

We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course…

— Ronald Reagan

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all…

— Vasily Grossman

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground…

— Anonymous

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them,…

— Anonymous

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their…

— Thomas Sowell

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

— Chanakya

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical…

— Paul Hindemith

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

— Nicolas Chamfort

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

— Seneca the Younger

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even…

— Charlton Heston

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his…

— Sergey Nechayev

In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall…

— Nicholas Grimald

Every thought, word, or deed, either purifies or pollutes the body.

— Harold Klemp

Let deeds match words.

— Plautus

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

— Louis Auchincloss

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous…

— Michel de Montaigne

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— George Herbert

Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which…

— Homer

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

— Edmund Spenser

Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.

— Winston Churchill