Deeds Quotes - Page 17

• Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
  Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
  Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
  Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
  Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.

  George Crabbe

  Son, Soldier, Honor

  George Crabbe, “The Borough. Letter Vi: Professions--Law”

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• We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes which he possesses. They are in us, and they make us God's embryo, We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same principle.

  George F. Richards

  Children, Believe, Men

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• The intent and not the deed
  Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
  Does greatly.

  John Brown

  Courage, Doe, Dare

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Brown, John Banks (1795). “British Theatre: Barbarossa”, p.72

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• Deed done is well begun.

  Dante Alighieri

  Deeds Done, Done, Wells

  Dante Alighieri (1857). “Dante, tr. into Engl. verse by I.C. Wright, with engr. after Flaxman”, p.116

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• Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Opportunity, Reality, May

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Integrity, Adversity, Enemy

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• Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

  Elizabeth I

  Tree, Substance, Fruit

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• Labor! all labor is noble and holy!
  Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Prayer, Noble, Holy

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• Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Technology, People, Fruit

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• One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Interesting, Quality

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• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Aeschines

  Real, Men, Vaunt

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• ... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Humanity, Study, Creeds

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.181, SUNY Press

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• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

  J. G. Holland

  Heaven, Noble, Steps

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• Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

  Owen Feltham

  Action, Contemplation, Objects

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• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Men, Careers

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

  African Spir

  Men, Enlightening, Scene

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

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• the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Friends, People, Would Be

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.391, Wildside Press LLC

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• Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Secret Love, Silence, Wonder

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• If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Noble, Common

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• The words you've bandied are sufficient;
  'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
  [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
  Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sufficient

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• The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Might, Can Do, Manly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

  Craig L. Rice

  Substance, Action

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• Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

  Steven Weber

  Integrity, Democracy, Sells

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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