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Quotes About Deeds

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.
~ Marcus Eremita
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
~ Malcolm X
Be happy, noble heart. Be blessed for all the good you have done and will yet do. Let my gratitude remain hidden in the shadows like your good deeds.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The truth was written upon us, as they say men's sins are written on their bones so that when they die their wicked deeds can be read as if written upon parchment.
~ Alice Hoffman
a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.
~ Alice Hoffman
I heard the voice of God all around me, but I was unafraid. I should have trembled before the Almighty and hid myself from sight. I should have taken a knife to my own flesh to cut away the mark of my past deeds. But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.
~ Alice Hoffman
I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building with people passing me on the way to classes, on the way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.
~ Alice Munro
A man of action acts. He doesn't talk or think. Doesn't repeat himself. Nope. Just acts. Is what he does. That's how you judge a man. Not by what he says but by what he does.
~ Allan Guthrie
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence." —Homer
~ Joe Abercrombie
Los necios se jactan de lo que harán. Los héroes lo hacen.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
~ Johann von Goethe
Love and desire are the spiritís wings to great deeds.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were darkened by; The Eternal Feminine Draws us on high.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.
~ Richard Brautigan
They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers
~ Brigham Young
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.
~ Lord Byron
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
~ Sophocles
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren't the ticket to earning God's favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.
~ Bill Courtney
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
~ T.A. Barron
All methods of Buddhism can be explained with the four seals—all compounded phenomena are impermanent, all emotions are pain, all things have no inherent existence, and enlightenment is beyond concepts. Every act and deed encouraged by Buddhist scriptures is based on these four truths, or seals.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
the state of nature is rather a state of injustice, of violence, of uncontrolled natural impulses, and of inhuman deeds and emotions.
~ E. Michael Jones
He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was understood to reply that deeds are more important than words.
~ E.M. Forster
Religious show it with actions not with the lips.
~ Eddy M Reyes