Deeds Quotes

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

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

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

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

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

Deeds are males, words females are.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

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.

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

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.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

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

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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.

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

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

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

No good deed ever goes wasted.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.

Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

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

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

Word is a shadow of a deed.

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.