Deeds Quotes · Page 21

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

— George Eliot

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

— Victor Hugo

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

— Pindar

“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

— Anonymous

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

— Chris Sacca

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

— David Gemmell

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people…

— Gautama Buddha

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having…

— Max Muller

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

— Mary Baker Eddy

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They…

— Terry Eagleton

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in…

— Rita Mae Brown

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices…

— Christine de Pizan

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of…

— Maya Angelou

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but…

— Hermann Hesse

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted…

— Albert Einstein

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor…

— William Shakespeare

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds…

— Charles Dickens

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

— D. A. Carson

“Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are”

— George Elliot

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

— Van Morrison

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I…

— Rudyard Kipling

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

— Stanislaw Lem

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

— Sallust

Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.]

— Plautus

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

— Malcolm X

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

— Rick DeMarinis

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder…

— Lord Byron

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

— William Shakespeare

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Dorothy Parker