Deeds Quotes - Page 25

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.