Deeds Quotes

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.