Quotes on Deeds

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;_x000D_ _x000D_ But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Men do not value a good deed_x000D_ _x000D_ unless it brings a reward.

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back _x000D_ _x000D_ Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, _x000D_ _x000D_ A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: _x000D_ _x000D_ Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd _x000D_ _x000D_ As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.

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

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.