Deeds Quotes (page 2)

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• god
• men
• words

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. Leo Tolstoy

• people
• new
• old

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau

• people
• new
• old

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau

• thoughts
• she
• world

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. Emile Zola

• good
• good deeds
• goodness

A good deed is a good deed. John Lee Hancock

• shadow
• alone
• motivational

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats

• great
• small
• greatness

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall

• balance
• good
• equality

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. Maimonides

• shame
• deed
• taught

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. Sophocles

• creativity
• world
• else

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all. Josiah Royce

• time
• love
• fitness

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. Josiah Royce

• good
• blessed
• evil

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. Bodhidharma

• free
• strength
• hand

Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast. But he did not do so, he merely turned his head, which was still free to move, and gazed around him. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he could not relieve the officials of all their tasks;... Franz Kafka

• giving
• future
• humanity

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior. Jane Goodall

• night
• soul
• play

My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. William Shakespeare