Deeds Quotes - Page 27

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

A good deed is a good deed.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

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.]

The search is in the doing.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.

What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

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.

Deeds survive the doers.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.