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Quotes About Deed

Some will come and say: That's how it always is, and this is what it means to be male: we have to destroy in order to create. But what if the earth were to say: I gave birth to you because I longed to be more than earth. Where now is your deed?
~ Hans Erich Nossack
He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power,He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!
~ Zoroaster
The deed of love is stronger than words
~ Pearl Bailey
Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.
~ David Jeremiah
Quiero hacer bien y no saber que lo hice.
~ Max Lucado
There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels it. The strike must first reach bone marrow, then ascend slowly to the brain where the slowpoke intellect records the deed.
~ Maya Angelou
The fate of the poor both locally and globally will to a grave extent determine the quality of life for those who are lucky enough to have class privilege. Repudiating exploitation by word and deed is a gesture of solidarity with the poor.
~ bell hooks
We will take the good will for the deed.
~ Francois Rabelais
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T. S. Eliot
I don't support deed transfer of lands.
~ Greg Gianforte
No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.
~ Stacy Hawkins Adams
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
~ George MacDonald
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T.S. Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T.S. Eliot
A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?
~ Talbot Mundy
For it is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done—the highest—so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
~ Julian of Norwich
man's being is essentially his own deed .
~ Friedrich Schelling
An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Should he risk the great reward of his divine faith for the sake of a single deed of human love?
~ Henry Van Dyke
We have adopted the policy of Sorel of propaganda of the deed. The best rhetoric comes from building and testing models and running experiments. Let philosophers weave webs of words; such webs break easily.
~ Herbert A. Simon
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
~ Josiah Royce
For every good deed done, a blessing is waiting to be born!
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.
~ Steven Erikson