Deeds Quotes

Begin: To have commenced is half the deed. Half yet remains; Begin again on this and thou wilt finish all.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

A good deed is the best prayer.

Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

In great deeds something abides.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

You must take the will for the deed.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.