Deeds Quotes

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

I believe in deeds, not words.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Words to deeds cold breath gives.

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

Every honest good deed comes with a positive feeling to do more good deeds.

Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness.

May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.