Deeds Quotes
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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.
Russell Baker
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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
Sophocles
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
Gautama Buddha
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
Albert Camus
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
Tony Abbott
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I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
Wilson Mizner
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How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
William Wordsworth
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Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
Seneca the Younger