Deeds Quotes · Page 26

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

— Swami Vivekananda

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

— Thomas Overbury

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

— Richard Brautigan

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

— William Shakespeare

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

— Rudolf Steiner

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

— William Shakespeare

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

— Buzz Aldrin

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

— Gautama Buddha

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it…

— Marcus Aurelius

If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity…

— Yukio Mishima

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength…

— Albert Einstein

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every…

— Tacitus

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps…

— William Shakespeare

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the…

— John Barth

Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else…

— Omar Suleiman

“The greatest deed is to love the Lord God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul and with all…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They…

— Laozi

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country.…

— James Lee Burke

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

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

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

— Lord Acton

Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?…

— Thomas Carlyle

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

— Cesare Pavese

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

— Anonymous

“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”

— Jason Fried

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

— William Shakespeare

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

— Albert Schweitzer

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

— Ivan Bunin

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

— Mark Twain

Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

— Ernie J Zelinski

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.

— Vachel Lindsay

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

— Roger Scruton

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

— Dagobert D. Runes

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“What is the deeds of life; to serve, to sacrifice , to share!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.

— Jeff Foxworthy

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

— Homer