Deeds Quotes

People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

Words are less important to me than deeds.

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]