Deeds Quotes · Page 29

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

— Ibn Rajab

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

— Elvis Presley

Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

— Umar

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

— John R. Rice

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

— Dorothy Parker

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

— Dillon Burroughs

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…

— Isaiah Berlin

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and…

— John Piper

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

— Dag Hammarskjold

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having…

— Max Muller

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

— Mary Baker Eddy

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They…

— Terry Eagleton

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in…

— Rita Mae Brown

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life,…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people…

— Gautama Buddha

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,…

— Edward Everett

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany…

— Saint Augustine

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of…

— John Ruskin

There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand…

— Anonymous

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as…

— Jodi Picoult

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it…

— Symeon the New Theologian

All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a…

— Pope Clement VIII

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

— Anonymous

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

— Joseph Joubert

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

— Sophocles

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

— Christopher Paolini

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

— Confucius

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

— Douglas Coupland

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

— Ovid

whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

— Johanna Spyri

“Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are”

— George Elliot

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

— Van Morrison

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

— Stanislaw Lem