Deeds Quotes · Page 23

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

— Martin Luther

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

— Louis Fischer

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

— Debbie Macomber

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

— John Wycliffe

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

— Kresley Cole

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

— Mother Teresa

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

— Michael Mullen

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest…

— John Milton

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers,…

— Henry Clay

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that…

— Carlos Castaneda

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man…

— Shannon Delany

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one…

— Joseph Goebbels

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else -…

— Julian Baggini

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.…

— Henry David Thoreau

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he…

— Phillips Brooks

Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become…

— Maimonides

If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some…

— Baron d'Holbach

So, think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire across the sky for all and everything to see.For…

— Mikhail Naimy

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast…

— Anonymous

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

— Baltasar Gracian

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

— Eric Swanson

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

— William Shakespeare

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

— Jose Marti

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

— Douglas Horton

If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

— Sufyan al-Thawri

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

— Donald P. Ryan

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds

— Bahá'u'lláh

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

— Henry David Thoreau

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

— Teresa of Avila

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

— Scott Westerfeld

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

— Ibn Ata Allah

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

— William Wordsworth

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

— Anonymous