Deeds Quotes · Page 23

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

— Sophocles

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

— Buddha

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

— Henry Clarence Thiessen

“You may ask what is the use of my deeds when they are proved useless.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

— Mason Cooley

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

— Jon Corzine

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty…

— Liu Bei

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done,…

— Josiah Royce

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

— Rita Zahara

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds…

— T. S. Eliot

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . .…

— Jonah Goldberg

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice…

— R. D. Laing

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most…

— William Ellery Channing

But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever…

— Stefan Zweig

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done…

— George Matthew Adams

If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this.…

— Ibn Ata Allah

Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they…

— Peter Prange

That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled…

— Edward Coke

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.…

— Victor Hugo

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

— Aeschylus

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

— Robert Greene

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

— James Cash Penney

Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.

— Joshua Reynolds

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

— John Milton

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

— Bryan Davis

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

— Bill Vaughan

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

— Lloyd Alexander

My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

— Alan Rufus

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own…

— John Keats

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

— Homer

God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.

— Anonymous

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

— William Shakespeare