Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Lech Walesa

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

Che Guevara

Words without deeds are worthless.

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished.

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

Dalai Lama

... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

Inspire us to perform good deeds just as the Master instructs the efficient charioteer to drive the new chariot.

In reality, the fallout is never as drastic as we think it is. People move on. Once you say no, people move on to find somebody else to do the deed for whatever they need done.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

William Morris

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

We kind of let our good deeds get away from us.

The wish is the father of the deed

We have a deed to it. We feel like we own that.

That is why not only we should ourselves engage in good deeds but also encourage others to do the same.

It seems that all this in our view falls under the heading of that facetious remark no good deed goes unpunished.

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.

Herman Melville

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Henry David Thoreau

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

Ignatius of Loyola

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

Gore Vidal

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Goods deeds fill the mind with enthusiasm and zeal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

Geoffrey Chaucer

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

Winona Ryder

So remaking a movie like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a really positive statement and I'm so happy I made it in light of what happened after we made it.

George Eliot

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

Emily Dickinson

A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot.