Deeds Quotes · Page 27

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

— James Russell Lowell

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

— Arthur Erickson

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

— Otto von Bismarck

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

— Helen Keller

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

— Abu Hurairah

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

— Gautama Buddha

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Ibn Ata Allah

O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and…

— Charles Dickens

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and…

— Anonymous

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie…

— Gautama Buddha

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot…

— Confucius

Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except…

— Rashi

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without…

— Gilbert Parker

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom…

— Marcus Eremita

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the…

— Winston Churchill

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing…

— D. H. Lawrence

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into…

— Isaac of Nineveh

On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things…

— Abu Umamah al Bahili

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get…

— Mark Twain

Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people…

— Gough Whitlam

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in…

— Leo Tolstoy

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living…

— Russell M. Nelson

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

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

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Anonymous

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

— John Milton

The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.

— Fred Small

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

— Alfred North Whitehead

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

— Sarah Palin

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.”

— Hafez

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

— Zoroaster

“A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

— Anonymous

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

— James Joyce