Top 100 Quotes About Deeds
#1. I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#2. I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
Bill Viola
#3. On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends.
Daniel Silva
#4. Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.
Zoroaster
#5. The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head (1:15).
Anonymous
#6. We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.
Mikhail Bakunin
#7. To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.
Jules Verne
#8. I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
George Clooney
#9. Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
Inazo Nitobe
#10. How soon things changed and how low people fell and from what heights. Even those whom he thought untouchable. Or perhaps, especially those. It was as if there were two invisible arcs: with our deeds and words we ascended; with our deeds and words we descended.
Elif Shafak
#12. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Thomas Sowell
#14. My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;
I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
William Shakespeare
#15. I'm always signing blank deeds. That's how an escrow company works.
Jeff Greene
#16. Davey Jones: Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?
Davy Jones
#17. Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.
Others may misunderstand my good intentions,
judge my words or deeds, find fault,
or blame what they truly do not understand.
But God knows my heart.
He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,
to be all He created me to be.
Lori Nawyn
#18. Pride is love for one's deeds or achievements. Vanity is love for one's ... one, I guess.
Corey Taylor
#19. Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.
Benjamin Whichcote
#20. Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.
Bryan Davis
#22. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#23. It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
Sallust
#24. That is all that makes life worth our while - to do good deeds and to help those less fortunate than ourselves.
L. Frank Baum
#25. Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.
Plato
#29. Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
Saint Augustine
#31. In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider
#32. That which proceeds from a man's soul shall shape his soul; that which proceeds from his speech shall shape his speech, and deeds that proceed from his body shall shape his body.
Yukio Mishima
#34. Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.
Sholem Asch
#35. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
Albert Einstein
#36. Everybody in my family believed in ghosts, and my grandma said it wasn't just bad people who turned into them, it was bad deeds too.
Anna North
#37. There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#38. To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
William Shakespeare
#39. Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you ... an escape.
Davy Jones
#40. I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.
Kresley Cole
#41. On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged.
Elijah Muhammad
#42. The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff
#43. And so take away his work, which was his life [ ... ] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
C.S. Lewis
#44. Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#45. It is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#46. 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
#47. conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.
John Piper
#48. Words of a man were meaningless. But actions spoke volumes, and it was always through deeds that the true measure of a man could be ascertained.
Maya Banks
#50. God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#51. As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
Juliet Marillier
#52. Mary's life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.
Pope Francis
#53. The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Lech Walesa
#54. 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.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#55. EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
Eliphas Levi
#57. Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
#60. As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
Gautama Buddha
#61. Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They deal corruptly, their deeds are vile, not one does what is right.
King David
#64. The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
Phil Bredesen
#65. Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
Rick DeMarinis
#66. Ordinary men with extraordinary power
Common men with uncommon results
Usual men with unusual anointing
Unschooled mortal men with immortal vision
Weak men with mighty deeds
-Insight for Fruitful Living
Ikechukwu Joseph
#67. be cleansed of that which is injurious to man and detracteth from his high station - among which is to take undue pleasure in one's own words and deeds, notwithstanding their unworthiness. True
Bahai Pubishing
#68. Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
#69. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#70. Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
Elizabeth I
#71. It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
#72. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt
#73. It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
Elbert Hubbard
#74. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis
#75. The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen
Max Lucado
#76. I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
Walt Whitman
#77. Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.
Robert N. Lee
#78. On 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind.
Yuval Noah Harari
#79. Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Gautama Buddha
#80. Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says.
Peter Wilkes
#81. Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John Lothrop Motley
#82. Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.
Shari Arison
#83. True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
Julian Baggini
#84. We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises ..
Ariel Sharon
#85. [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
Christine De Pizan
#86. We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
Chip Ingram
#87. Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?
Henry David Thoreau
#89. Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
Zell Miller
#90. The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.
Khaleda Zia
#91. An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#92. I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Has oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#93. If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
H. Burke Peterson
#94. Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities
Clarence Jordan
#95. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded:
Charlotte Bronte
#96. According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#97. The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.
Dean Karnazes
#98. What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions ... These things are also what makes a man a monster.
Shannon Delany
#99. He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Victor Hugo
#100. I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?
Anne Frank
