Deeds Quotes - page 5

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. View quote
Homer
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. View quote
William Shakespeare
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. View quote
Sallust
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Error is the force that welds men together truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. View quote
Barack Obama
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory. That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. View quote
John Milton
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love. View quote
Aristotle
They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. (Aristotle)
When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes. View quote
Karl Marx
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e. g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou - let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
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 they And we shall meet. View quote
John Keble
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds. View quote
Martin Luther
The most important thing in life is to always do good. If you can't do great deeds for people, at least try to do something small. View quote
Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky)
So then, let us not attribute to God's actions and His dealings with us any idea of requital. Rather, we should speak of fatherly provision, a wise dispensation, a perfect will which is concerned with our good, and complete love. If it is a case of love, then it is not one of requital; and if it is a case of requital, then it is not one of love. Love, when it operates, is not concerned with the requiting of former things by means of its own good deeds or correction; rather, it looks to what is most advantageous in the future: it examines what is to come, and not things that are past. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. (Athanasius of Alexandria)
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future. View quote
Peter Prange
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. View quote
Robert Greene
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it. View quote
Sinclair B. Ferguson