Deeds Quotations | Page 2

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.

Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds...

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together;

Love binds all hearts in a soft silken symphony. Seen through the eyes of Love, all beings are beautiful; all deeds are dedicated; and all thoughts are innocent. The World is one vast kin.

O Men! Look at the divine deeds of Vishnu; contemplate and then follow them.

One should judge the deeds and not the declarations. We have to wait and see if the new Cabinet will, in fact, be sworn in and how it will act, taking into account Arafat's staunch resistance to it and his capacity to undermine any process of reform.

One should indulge only in such deeds that provides good- health and strength so that he can work for longer periods without getting tired.

One should eat nutritious food and exercise regularly to have sound health. Virtuous deeds performed with intelligence shall naturally bring good wealth.

One should continue performing such virtuous deeds that increases strength, life-span and sharpens our power of vision.

One ruins the mind if he or she indulges in bad deeds and ends up in misery.

One should performed his deeds for the benefit of mankind with an unbiased approach because of bias gives birth to evil, which creates thousands of obstacles in our path.

Of course, I want to win a second gold medal in my own country, ... In order to achieve that, I will have to make the effort. I will not only talk about it, but have my deeds speak for themselves. I will grab whatever chance I get.

My deeds now are simple, for I'm a simple man. But (they're) honest .Ê.Ê. come from a sincere heart .Ê.Ê. I'm definitely not the same foolish misguided person I once was.

My deeds now are simple, for I'm a simple man. But (they're) honest . . . come from a sincere heart . . . I'm definitely not the same foolish misguided person I once was.

Only by indulging in good deeds can one expect good results.

I didn't want something like, 'Hey Stitch, let's go out and do good deeds today,'

I don't know what constitutes the proper pedigree. I'll have to ask the guys in the clubhouse. But, as far as deeds go, he has had as much impact on the game as anybody in the Hall of Fame. It's not just about wins, but excellence. If it were just about wins, 95 percent of the people in the Hall wouldn't be there.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

I felt like I achieved all the deeds I wanted to in college, ... The goal this year was to win the national championship and we did that. Now my dream is to shake (NBA commissioner) David Stern's hand and play for an NBA team.

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

If the thought is pure then the deeds are definite to be pure and quite obviously the results are unquestionably excellent.

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

Good deeds yield good results and bad deeds yield bad results.

King was persistent in her words and deeds of encouragement. She never wavered from her stance of non-violence as the only viable option for change.

John has had an outstanding career on the field of play, but equally outstanding is the work, support and dedication he and his wife, Dyan, have contributed to the Atlanta community. Their good deeds have been exemplary and in keeping with the tradition of the man for whom this award is named.

Our resolve to indulge in good deeds shall definitely yield rich benefits.

Our focus is on deeds and not so much words and personalities.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.

Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man, who acts thus, is inevitably blessed with immortality.

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

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

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers.

Those who are greedy and avaricious end up in misery. Because of their evil deeds they are short lived.

Those who are devoid of attachment, whose mind is fixed in knowledge, all deeds of such liberated persons dissolves away.

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds

What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day; and by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul

We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

The deeds which one commits, while sitting in one's own home, are known far and wide, in the four directions.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

Every little deed counts.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.

We want to acknowledge the good deeds of Good Samaritans -- from professional rescue workers to passersby and everyday people -- who helped save the lives of people very close to us.

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

The memory of a good deed lives.

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Gods revelation has always been in deeds. Gods interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

Good deeds never go unpunished.

What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.