Quotes about deeds

Gustave Flaubert -

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble spirits. Enduring life honorably results in wisdom. Knowledge passed down from one generation to the next along with humankind's tradition of performing charitable and self-sacrificing deeds creates principled legacies for future generations to emulate.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The Holy God performs righteous acts.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The holy God proved holy by his righteous acts.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

May God give you much grace for every great work.

Lailah Gifty - Akita

God is a witness to anything done in secret.

Lailah Gifty - Akita

Every secret deed lays opened before God.

Wuhayb ibn al-Wird -

By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.

Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonethe

Suzy Kassem -

Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a conscience, but you can have a conscience without faith. Man was designed to be good with or without religion, yet the challenge for many is staying good. Some people claim to be religious but have no conscience, while some people without religion are very much aware of their conscience. Therefore, a religious label does not define your character or validate your worth. In the end, all men will be j

Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintiness.I do not bear with me, by any chance,An insult not yet washed away- a conscienceYellow with unpurged bile- an honor frayedTo rags, a set of scruples badly worn.I go caparisoned in gems unseen,Trailing white plumes of freedom, garlandedWith my good name- no figure of a man,But a soul clothed in shining armor, hungWith deeds for decorations, twirling- thus-A bristling wit, and swinging at my sideC

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The Weight of One Feather"Given.Many fear deathBecause they alreadyFeel ridden with sin,But no man on this earthIs filled with only white lightWithin.Have more faithIn our Maker,For our souls and mindsWere created by Him.Just remember that,When your deedsAre measuredBy the scale – The good sideMust outweighThe bad,And your heartMust be as lightAs a featherTo win.

Sophie Kinsella - The Undomestic Goddess

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

Jason Fried - Rework

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

In everyday life, a blessed act of saying ‘hello, a smile, word of encouragement…’ can uplift someone spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

It is better for you to love than hate.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You ought to forgive others. Sometimes, the dark deed of others is due to inner struggles and fears. With your shining light and kind deeds, you will help them to turn to the light.

Edward Abbey -

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

C.G. Jung -

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every great soul was inspired by another great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Kind heart, kind soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The motive of man depicts his soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

We are good souls with good heart for good deeds.

Avinash Rao -

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

God’s grace is the strength for every good deed.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Every kind deed is an act of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

What is the deeds of life; to serve, to sacrifice , to share!

John Steinbeck - East of Eden

Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too -- in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any chances we may impose of field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There

Ashok Kallarakkal -

A friend in deed is a friend indeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The deeds of the light are love, faith and purity.

Israelmore Ayivor -

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned.

Debasish Mridha -

When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.

Benjamin Franklin - Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Testy McTesterson -

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Max Vegaritter -

As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.We read them for their Words, not for their deeds.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Everybody is a writer. Everybody has a hand. Everybody has a story. Everybody writes stories of life from dawn to dusk. Everybody has a pen. Everybody has inks. These are the inks for writing the stories of life: words, thoughts, actions and deeds! The pen is important, but the ink in the pen determines the color of the writing! The pen is important, but the hand that holds the pen determines the style of the writing! Whether we choose our words well or not; whether we choose to think well or no

Salman Rushdie -

Yes, and words are not deeds, Solanka allowed, moving off fretfully. Though words can become deeds. If said in the right place and at the right time, they can move mountains and change the world. Also, uh-huh, not knowing what you're doing - separating deeds from the words that define them - was apparently becoming an acceptable excuse. To say "I didn't mean it" was to erase meaning from your misdeeds, at least in the opinion of the Beloved ALis of the world. Could that be so? Obviously, no. No,

Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims

The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You are capable of good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Great deeds, great blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Sow good seeds for a bountiful harvest of good fruits.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The Maker knows the intention of every man.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Light shines but why do many souls desire to stay in darkness?.

José Saramago - Blindness

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Each man act according to his faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Faith is the force of action.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Is there any good works without grace?

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The royal power is the grace to act right.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Every good deed is glory to God.

Charlaine Harris - Dead as a Doornail

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

R.J. Palacio - Wonder

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

We can do no good, without God's grace,

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Do what you can while you can.

Mark Buchanan - The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The only true religion is the grace to act right.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

John Kramer - Blythe

Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.

Edward Abbey -

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Heart Crush

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Every good deed is a glory to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Great life, great deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You create the life you wish by your thoughts, speech and actions.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture. These spiritual deeds are the greatest acts to self-development

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

In every endeavour, we need God’s grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Little things done with love are better than big things without love.

Criss Jami - Healology

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

Manoj Vaz -

Your achievements die with you.Your deeds live on as your legacy!

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Set example to your children, in speech and in conduct.

Kamand Kojouri -

We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another’s handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Every action today will define the future.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Sweet Destiny

Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life.

C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Without grace, how can we do the good, we ought to do?

Vikrmn - Guru with Guitar

Being lucky is in your hands as it’s outcome of your deeds.

Vikrmn - Guru with Guitar

Higher you step up to the ladder of success.. lesser you need to speak about yourself.. your deeds should do so.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Never grow weary of doing good.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Parent must set an example to their children in love, in deeds and in conduct.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God’s grace abounds in us to do great works.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Is the any religion like a right act?

Lailah Gifty Akita -

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.