Deeds Quotes - Page 31

• There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

  George Eliot

  Men, Air, Evil

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.422, George Eliot

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• Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified.

  Andrew of Crete

  Religious, Jesus, Rain

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• As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

  Matt Redman

  Looks, Height, Way

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• Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

  Jon Corzine

  Care, Moral, Genocide

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• The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  People, Phrases, World

  "The Crisis of the Tax State" (1918)

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• Words are women, deeds are men.

  George Herbert

  Women, Men

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.329

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• History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

  Louis Fischer

  Divorce, Hypocrisy, Creeds

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• Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
  You can kill one, but another is born.
  The words are written down, the deed, the date.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Remember You, Remembers You, Safe

  Czeslaw Milosz, “You Who Wronged”

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Evil, Office, Action

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

  Peter Steele

  Taken, Joy, Given

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• Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Bye, Differences, Way

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• A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Facts, Deny

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.

  C. W. Ceram

  Adventure, Past, Men

  "Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology".

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• No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

  Bill Courtney

  Grace, Favors, Matter

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.187, Weinstein Publishing

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• Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

  Aino Kallas

  Children, Moon, Night

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• Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

  Edna Woolman Chase

  Hands, Together, Essentials

  Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

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• Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

  Brooke Fraser

  Responsible

  Song: Albertine, Album: Albertine, 2006

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

  Janos Kadar

  Teamwork, Real, Men

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• My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Fine Words

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• If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Yesterday, Today, Defeat

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• In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

  Shadow, World, Body

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• Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Heroic Deeds, Heaven, Use

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• Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

  Alan Barth

  Country, Hero, Character

  "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.

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