Quotes About Deeds

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.