Deeds Quotes

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.