Deed Quotes
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'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!'
Edgar Allan Poe -
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.
John Ruskin
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen -
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius -
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
Cesare Pavese -
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle -
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
Sophocles -
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
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By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
Gautama Buddha -
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles -
Enough of labels, show your intent with word and deed.
Erin Pizzey -
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
Henrik Ibsen -
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
Tim Page -
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
Isaiah Berlin -
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Gautama Buddha -
Virtue must shape itself in deed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.
Eugene Simon -
You must take the will for the deed.
Jonathan Swift -
Deed done is well begun.
Dante Alighieri -
An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.
Gautama Buddha