Deeds Quotes
- Page 4Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Alfred North Whitehead
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Mason Cooley
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Saint Basil
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
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
John Owen
When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.
Charlie Crist
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John Milton
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
Stephen Hadley
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Jon Corzine
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg