Deeds Quotes - Page 15

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

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.

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

Good deeds never go unpunished.

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

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Deed done is well begun.

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

... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

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

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

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

The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

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

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

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.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!