Deeds Quotes - Page 5

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

Deeds, not words - you accomplish! Do not talk!

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Every little deed counts.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable... The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.