Top 100 Deeds Done Quotes
#1. Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye.
Ken Liu
#2. Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?
Pythagoras
#4. Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.
Napoleon Hill
#5. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
#7. It is valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree.
Kavita Kane
#8. I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
Rita Mae Brown
#9. Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
Ted Turner
#11. Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.
Mario Puzo
#12. Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required.
Steven Erikson
#13. Deeds done in the dark can never remain unexposed.
Michelle Griep
#14. For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
Victor Hugo
#15. The "good deeds" done outside trusting the gospel will make a soul go sour.
Timothy Keller
#16. God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.
Dallas Willard
#17. God always smiles because of our little deeds done with a good heart, but to make the heart of God always beat for you, win and keep a soul for Him!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#18. If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.
Robert Browning
#19. Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus
#20. We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
Charles Spurgeon
#21. 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.
Therese Of Lisieux
#23. Whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.
Johanna Spyri
#24. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Lord Byron
#25. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.
Dolly Parton
#26. but the older he got, the better he understood; forgiveness was an act done after the fact - a piece of the bad deeds future - and if you point the people's eyes to the future they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.
Yaa Gyasi
#27. It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
Julian Of Norwich
#28. When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. Madam, I assure you that you are dealing with two gentleman of the highest propriety and social standing.
When one contemplates the deeds that are daily done in society's name, such a description is no high recommendation.
Paul Di Filippo
#30. When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#33. Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
Epictetus
#34. By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
Homer
#35. True love of others, according to Jesus, flows out of a love of God. The service of our lives flow out of the loving relationship we have with God. Too often we desire our service to create a loving relationship with God. Yet God does not seek after us because of any good deeds we have done.
Tyler Braun
#36. In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.
Justin Martyr
#37. On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of course. But mostly evil, on the whole. On nights such as this, witches are abroad. Well, not actually abroad. They don't like the food and you can't trust the water and the shamans always hog the deckchairs.
Terry Pratchett
#39. For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
Edmund Spenser
#40. Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don't forget you're one of a kind When nobody's checking the deeds you've done And nobody's hearing your cries You make all the fashion statements Just by dressing up your mind ((Beauty in Ugly))
Jason Mraz
#41. And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.
Christopher Smart
#42. Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.
Orrin Woodward
#43. That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.
Joe Klein
#44. When we die it is as if the world resets, and only memory remains as evidence of the deeds we have done, no more and no less.
Claire North
#45. Some people do good to undo the crimes they have done and some do crimes to do good because in the end justice is blind.
Amit Abraham
#46. 124. And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of Allaah (Muslim), such will enter Paradise and not the least injustice, even to the size of a Naqeera (speck on the back of a date-stone), will be done to them.
Anonymous
#47. To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.
M. Ageyev
#48. In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.
Normandi Ellis
#49. Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
William Shakespeare
#50. The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
Theodore Roosevelt
#51. Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.
George Eliot
#52. 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.
Kurt Huber
#53. The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to ... deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, ...
Gautama Buddha
#54. when the Spirit enables us to understand what Christ has done for us, the result is a life poured out in deeds of justice and compassion for the poor.5
Timothy J. Keller
#55. Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
Horace Mann
#56. There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.
Dan Groat
#57. In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
Aristotle.
#58. In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
Thomas A Kempis
#60. In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.
Richard Brautigan
#62. How is it possible to hate so deeply for deeds not yet done?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#63. Warriors were more interested in learning what great deeds she had done before arriving.
Joseph R. Lallo
#64. Don't shout the dreams out.. let it be done by your deeds; stay calm and fly high.
Vikrmn
#66. Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise, they are biased.
Tapan Ghosh
#67. For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
Aeschylus
#68. They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.
Ronlyn Domingue
#69. Little things done with love are much better than big things without love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. 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.
Julian Of Norwich
#72. What virtue is it that is born with us?
Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,
Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.
Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,
Until some honorable deed be done.
----From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad I
Christopher Marlowe
#73. 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.
John Bowring
#74. I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#75. What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.
Gregory David Roberts
#76. What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more. Cadfael, Pg. 255
Ellis Peters
#77. Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.
Samuel Smiles
#78. For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
Bill Vaughan
#79. That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
Max Muller
#80. Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.
Henry David Thoreau
#81. No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
Charles Caleb Colton
#82. Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#83. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
Muhammad
#86. Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand
A. C. Bradley
#87. A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#88. Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.
Sydney J. Harris
#89. I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
Karl Marlantes
#90. The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. - Father Tyler's Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE
Erika Johansen
#91. At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.
Mother Teresa
#92. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#93. Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
John H. Aughey
#94. A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
Muhammad
#95. I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!
Marguerite Wilkinson
#97. Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.
Fiona Apple
#98. The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on
Our SOULS.
C. G. Jung
#99. Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
Alexandre Dumas
#100. When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.
Marcus Aurelius
