Deed Quotes - page 3

The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. (Thomas Mann)
The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere. View quote
Cædmon
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget. View quote
Ali
You must take the will for the deed. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The Boss: The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed. View quote
H. G. Wells
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. View quote
Ennius
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. View quote
Edward Young
You reap what you sow - not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. (Vincent van Gogh)
The attempt and not the deed confounds us. View quote
William Shakespeare
A little water clears us of this deed. View quote
William Shakespeare
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul. View quote
William Shakespeare
The result justifies the deed. View quote
Ovid
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price. View quote
Sophocles
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
No good deed goes unpunished. View quote
Dan Brown
Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed? View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
We can hold up under everything if only we have the certainty the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed. View quote
Friedrich Kellner
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. (John Keats)
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb. View quote
Nikola Tesla
It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire? View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. View quote
John Burroughs