Deeds Quotes
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All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
Al-Shafi‘i -
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller -
Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
Ebenezer Elliott -
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot -
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey -
We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
Richard John Neuhaus -
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
Antoine Rivarol
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The colours of her heart represented the deeds she'd done, both good and bad, but the faint smell of treacle told her that, overall, she had a sweet heart.
Carrie Fletcher -
Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.
Ashraf Ghani -
Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
Blaise Pascal -
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats -
For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.
Gautama Buddha -
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
Jose Rizal
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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds.
Thomas Hardy -
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
Sophocles -
It's better to have this new deal rather than not to have it. But we do not trust any words or any papers. We are to trust only actions and deeds.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk -
On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
Abu Umamah al Bahili -
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Seneca the Younger -
Men see to satisfy their every craving and show by their deeds that they believe that after death there is no pleasure and that the Lord does not see them.
Arcangela Tarabotti
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A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
Albert Camus -
Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.
Eric Swanson -
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Thomas Sowell -
I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
Wilson Mizner