Deeds Quotes · Page 28

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

— Elizabeth Kostova

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

— Thomas Aquinas

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

— Harold S. Kushner

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

— Marcus Aurelius

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of…

— Maximus the Confessor

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

Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

— Jennifer Young

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character…

— John Milton

“Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my…

— Mithun Chakraborty

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer…

— James Allen

I'm not a man of many words, I don't like to talk much. I prefer deeds, sacrifices and showing that what matters…

— Ricky Rubio

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and…

— Ernie J Zelinski

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

— Allan Bloom

It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as…

— St. Vincent

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor…

— Anonymous

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -…

— Malcolm X

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in…

— Meister Eckhart

It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“If you do not find the deed producing a sweetness or expansion in your heart, then blame it. For the Lord, Exalted…

— Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di

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

“Two wrong deeds don't make a right, but two fucking awesome ones sure do help.”

— C.M. Stunich

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

— Barack Obama

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

— E. Stanley Jones

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

— Lord Acton

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

— Mary Butts

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

— Seneca the Younger

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

— Emile Zola

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

— Marcus Aurelius

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

— Hesiod

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

— Robert Cialdini

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

— Nelson Mandela

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

— Gautama Buddha

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

— Alexander Smith