Quotes by Deeds A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people. Henry Clay deeds character people A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave. Henrik Ibsen mark thousand deeds Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness. Helen Keller effort deeds kindness Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed. Henry Van Dyke deeds men needs Thus at the flaming forge of life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow burning deeds life He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. Friedrich Nietzsche daybreak scapegoat deeds All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of Herman Melville events deeds men The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness genius deeds Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. Homer doers mental-health deeds It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. Horace Mann grandparent deeds would-be Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. Homer noble deeds men Deeds survive the doers. Horace Mann doers survival deeds All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wall fate deeds To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. Herman Melville causes deeds action But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rust deeds age Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. Homer deeds evil men Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow arrows deeds war Be noble in every thought And in every deed! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow nobility noble deeds I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going. Friedrich Nietzsche golden i-love-him deeds High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. Horace wealth useless deeds «910111213141516171819»
