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Quotes About Deed

Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flownHis cloister'd flight, ere, to black Hecate's summonsThe shard-borne beetle with his drowsy humsHath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be doneA deed of dreadful note.
~ William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~ William Shakespeare
The American Union sanctions the deed. The Constitution shields the criminals. American
~ William Wells Brown
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
~ Yahya Jammeh
The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and 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 … As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.
~ David Michie
Safety refers to an inner sense that no harm will come to us for freely being ourselves in feeling, word and deed. Security refers to an inner sense that someone will be there for us.
~ David Richo
On his orders. Her letter revealed that he had sent very specific instructions as to how the deed was to be done. She complied. She was his willing accomplice in every way, and I can only imagine the hold he must have had over her to force her to do such terrible things.
~ Deanna Raybourn
We can good deed by God's grace.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.
~ Mark Lawrence, Red Sister
Faith is active and action word.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Every kind deed is an act of love.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
~ Henrik Ibsen
One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~ Eric Hoffer
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
~ Sarah Doudney
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He hecho el hecho y he hecho la hazaña y he cometido el acto, el acto es un hecho y es una hazaña y por cuenta más pronto o más tarde, he matado por ti y esa es mi hazaña y contártela ahora es mi obsequio, y me querrás más aún al saber lo que he hecho, aunque saberlo manche tu corazón tan blanco
~ Javier Marías
Like a beautiful brightly colored flower without fragrance Is the well-spoken word without action. Like a beautiful brightly colored flower full of fragrance Is the well-spoken word and the deed that matches the word. DHAMMAPADA 51-52
~ Jeff Schmidt
You seem to be under the misconception that if you perform one brave deed, that alone makes you a samurai. Well it doesn't! You let that one act of loyalty convince you of your righteousness. The more convinced you became, the more harm you caused yourself and everyone else.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.
~ Elizabeth Spencer
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs upon surrounding scenes and objects," the other added, "and who ever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? It is unfortunate. But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
~ Algernon Blackwood
The one who performs a deed and his heart does not believe in that deed, Allah will not accept any of his practices - but that it be along with the sincerity of intention.
~ al-Hadi, Ali
Socratic dialectic takes place in speech and, although drawn forward by the search for synthesis, always culminates in doubt. ... Marxs dialectic takes place in deed and puts an end to theoretical conflicts.
~ Allan David Bloom
Tyranny is always and everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of deed brought low.
~ Richard Mitchell