Deed Quote by Ovid

“Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed.”

— Billy McCoy

The result justifies the deed

— Ovid

“The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Exitus probatur,” he said. The end is justified. “Ergo acta probantur,” said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.”

— Alex Grecian

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

— William Shakespeare

“One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.”

— Thomas Keneally

“Do the deeds.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that”

— Seneca

“The Abbé Sieyès, in his inflammatory pamphlet, What is the Third Estate? of 1789, expressed the point succinctly. ‘The nation is prior to everything.…

— Roger Scruton

“he who begins a good deed, and does not execute it to the end, brings down misfortune upon his own head.”

— Louis Ginzberg

“The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be truly ripe)…

— William Bolitho