Quotes About Deed

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

T)he motive consecrates the deed.

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

Self-worth is the sense of one's own value as a person, self-esteem and self-respect. Self-worth is inner power reflected in your work and deed.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Sometimes when you do something out of love, people may think it is a stupid thing, but in the eyes of love, it is a noble deed.

The Thou encounters me by grace -- it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. -I John 3:18

A'ohe lokomaika'i i nele i ke p?na'i [No kind deed ever lacks its reward]

Poor Eve has been damned by all subsequent generations for her deed, while the Babylonians thought so much of their woman ancestress that they deified her.

So at this moment Judd felt eternal solitude coming upon him. The dignity, the consistency, of the deed had been broken; they were no longer wilful gods, but caught boys squirming to throw blame, and he wanted only to detach himself so he might at least retain his own idea of integrity.

The murders were more deed-focused than process-focused. The actual murder of the victim and setting him alight was much more important to the killer than meticulous planning or an attempt to conceal the bodies.

to think something is good, to do something is God.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.

The concept of reincarnation is very true, but it does not distinguish between good and bad. Either way, the price has to be paid somehow, and no evil deed can go unnoticed.

I count upon taking [the French people] by surprise. A bold deed upsets people's equanimity, and they are dumbfounded by a great novelty.

What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.