Deeds Quotes - Page 24

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

I believe in deeds, not words.

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

Even a smile is a good deed.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Human values can be listed as 50, 60, 70, 80 in all. But they can be better grouped under the following three heads; pure thoughts, pure words, pure deed; thoughts, words and deed cordinated with one another.

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

To do something is in every man's power.

The pain is the outcome of our bad deeds.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.