Deeds Quotes · Page 18

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

— Max Muller

Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

— Margaret Preston

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

— Dodie Smith

Be good and have good deeds with othes ans you demand from others for yourself,,,

— Jawad Mehmood

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

— Jonathan Sacks

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

— Dolly Parton

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no…

— Samuel Smiles

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

— Bahá'u'lláh

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private,…

— Cesare Pavese

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and…

— Brenda Ueland

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men…

— Virginia Woolf

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while…

— Imagawa Sadayo

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it…

— Max Muller

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded…

— Gautama Buddha

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility…

— James McCosh

If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds…

— Confucius

There are three levels of service. The highest level is that of one who performs good deeds the whole day and yet…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the…

— Lord Acton

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion,…

— Guru Nanak

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from…

— Helen Keller

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the…

— Nelson Mandela

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

— Bodhidharma

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

— Edgar Magnin

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

— Rosa Parks

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

— Dillon Burroughs

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

— Joshua Chamberlain

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

— Czeslaw Milosz

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

— Walter Raleigh

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

— John Baillie

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

— Clarence Jordan

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

— Anonymous

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

— William Shakespeare

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

— Sophocles

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

— Hannah Arendt