Deeds Quotes - page 26

To clothe truth in fitting words is to feel a satisfaction like that which comes of doing good deeds. (John Lancaster Spalding)
As they are the bravest who require no witnesses to their deeds of daring, so they are the best who do right without thinking whether or not it shall be known. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer's ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint. Our worthiest men are exhibited and bewritten until they are made as uninteresting as clowns. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Speech is insufficient to utter the last things; and this troubles it not, because the last things may be heard speaking for themselves. At last, after long delay the wondering soul gives form to that which is stirring within it and produces its works art and song and mighty deeds. View quote
L. P. Jacks
The nature of a Divine Being is seen more clearly in deeds which are loving than in deeds which are marvelous. He does not need miracle to make us love him or to prove that he is more than man. The unanswerable argument for his religion is that wherever he is sincerely followed men's lives are changed. View quote
Leslie Weatherhead
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole. View quote
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. View quote
Homer
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. View quote
Homer
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made. View quote
Homer
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. View quote
Homer
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. (William Shakespeare)
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. View quote
William Shakespeare
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown but where there is true friendship, there needs none. View quote
William Shakespeare
Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers. View quote
William Shakespeare
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth. View quote
William Shakespeare
What gone without a word Ay, so true love should do it cannot speak, for truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it. View quote
William Shakespeare
And it is great; To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. View quote
William Shakespeare
You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words. View quote
Nigel Rees
Scorned and ridiculed by many critics during his presidency, Lincoln became a martyr and almost a saint after his death. His words and deeds lived after him, and will be revered as long as there is a United States. Indeed, it seems quite likely that without his determined leadership the United States would have ceased to be. View quote
James M. McPherson
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. View quote
Ovid
Was I not born in the realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is there any cause I should alienate myself from being careful over this country? Is not my kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to others' harm? What turmoil have I made in this commonwealth, that I should be suspected to have no regard to the same? How have I governed since my reign? I will be tried by envy itself. I need not to use many words, for my deeds do try me. (Elizabeth I of England)
A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. View quote
David Horowitz
May we learn from barbaric and bloody deeds of the twentieth century and bestow the gift of peace to the next millennium. View quote
Bernard Lown
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. View quote
Sophocles
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. View quote
Sophocles