Deeds Quotes

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. (Plutarch)
Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life. View quote
Democritus
It's deeds we need, not words. View quote
Vasil Levski
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. View quote
Herodotus
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. View quote
George Eliot
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Honest people don't hide their deeds. View quote
Emily Brontë
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. View quote
George Eliot
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. (Elie Wiesel)
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. View quote
Elie Wiesel
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. View quote
Henry Miller
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? View quote
Robert Browning
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. View quote
Lucretius
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
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?" View quote
Jerome
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. View quote
Dodie Smith
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. (George Eliot)
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. View quote
Robert Browning
We shall march prospering,not thro' his presence Songs may inspirit us,not from his lyre Deeds will be done,while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire. View quote
Robert Browning