Deeds Quotes

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Words are women, deeds are men.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

The will for deed I doe accept.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Every thought, word, or deed, either purifies or pollutes the body.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Deeds survive the doers.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

The search is in the doing.

The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]

And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

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 open the soul of the doer.

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

What happens in somebody's house down the street does in very deed have an effect on what happens in my house and how it's treated.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.