Deeds Quotes · Page 28

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

— Elie Wiesel

We don't need a resume to come to God. It's not our good deeds. We come broken, and we need a savior.

— Sonny Sandoval

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

— Russell Conwell

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

— Nigel Rees

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

— Anonymous

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

— Albert Camus

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises ..

— Ariel Sharon

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the…

— Plutarch

If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the…

— Epictetus

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the…

— J. G. Holland

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at…

— Jonathan Sacks

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women…

— Henry Makow

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates…

— George Sarton

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were…

— Anonymous

Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million…

— John Garamendi

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do…

— Eileen Caddy

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered…

— Anonymous

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I…

— Charlotte Bronte

Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to…

— Arthur Compton

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes,…

— Sophocles

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds

— William Congreve

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

— Seneca the Younger

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

— Dallas Willard

Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

— Anonymous

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

— Don McLean

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

— Chanakya

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

— John Dewey

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

— Hiawatha

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in…

— Marcus Aurelius

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

— Bertrand Russell

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

— Joseph Campbell

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

— Anonymous

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

— Elizabeth I