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Quotes About Deeds

And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.
~ Nicholas Sparks
That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
~ James Woods
With well-feigned impatience, he asked, "Don't you recognize a man who's urgently trying to impress his woman with his good deeds?" "No, is that what you're doing?" "Most definitely." He did kiss her, but only a swift brush of his lips, a tease that made her want for more. "Although I suspect it has lost its impact since I had to point it out.
~ Christina Dodd
Dragomir frowned. You were glorified in song? Of course. My deeds were great. Weren't yours? My deeds were great, and yet no one glorified me in song . Köd alte hän. Darkness curse it, Sandu.
~ Christine Feehan
She saw it all. Every dark, dangerous deed. Every dark, ugly kill. Every law he had broken. But most of all she saw his greatness.
~ Christine Feehan
What virtue is it that is born with us? Much less can honor be ascribed thereto, Honor is purchased by the deeds we do. Believe me, Hero, honor is not won, Until some honorable deed be done. ----From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad I
~ Christopher Marlowe
The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.
~ Christopher Paolini
On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking. Logic will never fail you, unless you're unaware of—or deliberately ignore—the consequences of your deeds.
~ Christopher Paolini
But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.
~ Christopher Paolini
The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose. But what can I do? The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.
~ Christopher Paolini
What is the worth in anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; chose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you hope and a new purpose
~ Christopher Paolini
The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose.
~ Christopher Paolini
It is our destiny to attempt the impossible, to accomplish great deeds regardless of fear. It is our responsibility to the future.
~ Christopher Paolini
Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose.
~ Christopher Paolini
Why not, Sire?" He struggled for a moment, then growled, "Because Ã¢â'¬Â¦ because it's not respectable, that's why. What bard would compose an epic about our deeds and write about lace?
~ Christopher Paolini
The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,             Bloom well in prison air;           It is only what is good in Man             That wastes and withers there;           Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,             And the Warder is Despair.
~ Upton Sinclair
All in a day's work for the Good Witch.
~ Valerie Frankel
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
~ Victor Hugo
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
~ Victor Hugo
Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.
~ Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~ Victor Hugo
we are only responsible for the things we do—or fail to do—ourselves.
~ Kristin Harmel