Deeds Quotes - Page 17

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

The result justifies the deed.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

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.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

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.

If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

In great deeds something abides.

You must take the will for the deed.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.