Quotes About Deeds

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Promise little and do much.

The concept of dharma evolved over time, its meaning shifting from a 'ritual ethics of deeds' to a more personal virtue based on one's conscience.

He wanted to achieve something of surpassing beauty that would last. A creation that would mean that he--the mosaic worker Caius Crispus of Varena--had been born, and lived a life, and had come to understand a portion of the nature of the world, of what ran through and beneath the deeds of women and men in their souls and in the beauty and the pain of their short living beneath the sun.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Live life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness. Love, Kind words and Deeds do not cost anything.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

she had even witnessed in the home circle deeds of violence caused by intemperance and had seen her own father, a prey to the fumes of intoxication, forget himself completely for if there was one thing of all things that Gerty knew it was the man who lifts his hand to a woman save in the way of kindness deserves to be branded as the lowest of the low.

People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.

People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

The lack of expression in Detective Benbow was the kind you see in people who have witnessed events that forever change their view of the world. They never talk about it or struggle with it. Instead, they accept the fact that human beings are capable of deeds Satan couldn't think up.

resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

PEOPLE ARE WHAT they do, not what they think, not what they say.

I had no plan in mind. However, that statement is one I have always distrusted in other people, and I distrust it even more when I think it or say it myself. The unconscious always knows what the person is doing or planning. The agenda is to find the situation and the rationale that will allow the individual to commit deeds that are unconscionable. No matter how you cut it, I was back to the short form of the Serenity Prayer, known in AA and other recovery groups as Fuck It.

Jack and Jill came to the hill on a grave and somber mission you've made them mad the time's so bad to be a politician Jack and Jill came to hill to do some deadly deeds they weren't far wrong to judge how long a bleeding liberal bleeds.

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

His miracles, granted to be true, were nothing more than the common works of those enchanters, who, for a few oboli, will perform greater deeds in the midst of the Forum, calling up the souls of heroes, exhibiting sumptuous banquets, and tables covered with food, which have no reality. Such things do not prove these jugglers to be sons of God; nor do Christ's miracles." [271:2]

It isn't the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts.