Deed Quotes

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

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.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

The better day, the worse deed.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

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.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

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