Deeds Quotes

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Virtue must shape itself in deed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The search is in the doing. — Joan Baez
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common… — Stendhal
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. — Emile Zola
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances. — George Matthew Adams
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong… — Wendell Berry
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see… — Maxim Gorky
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
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. — Democritus
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland
Man is remembered by his deeds. — Knute Nelson
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton
Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation. — Neale Donald Walsch
He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass. — Shang Yang
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest… — William Greider
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty… — Susanna Moodie
... 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
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion… — Bernie Siegel
When love overflows and is expressed through every word & deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
A sadhak (one who does spiritual practice) will not have time to indulge in gossip. They will not feel like talking to anyone in a… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Loving words and deeds are the best alms. — Mata Amritanandamayi

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