Deeds Quotes - Page 28

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

Every thought, word, or deed, either purifies or pollutes the body.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

The will for deed I doe accept.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Words are women, deeds are men.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.