Deed Quotes

570 quotes by 422 authors

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. — Emile Zola
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay… — John Barth
If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly… — Josiah Royce
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. — Agesilaus II
Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation. — Neale Donald Walsch
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that… — Symeon the New Theologian
Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure. — David Jeremiah
When love overflows and is expressed through every word & deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. — Henry David Thoreau
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming… — Jamaica Kincaid
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man… — Benjamin Haydon
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… — Algernon Blackwood
Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake. — Dolly Parton
A good deed is a good deed. — John Lee Hancock
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is… — Ben Harper
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is… — Mahatma Gandhi

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