Deeds Quotes

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

In the final measure, nothing speaks like deeds

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Deed done is well begun.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.