Deed Quotes

Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.

No deed gets undone because it is regretted, no more than because it is forgiven or atoned for.

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says no to what is outside, what is different, what is not itself; and this No is its creative deed.

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

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

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word, and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be a measure of our success.

Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed.

I hope from the bottom of my heart that as the years go on, in every continent and in every clime, Nation will follow Nation in proving by deed as well as by word their adherence to the ideal of the Americas - I am a good neighbor.

It is an overflowing love, which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. And when one rises to love on this level, he is able to love the person who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does.

Certainly one can never forget, if that means erasing totally for his mind. But when we forgive, we forget in the sense that the evil deed is no longer a mental block impeding a new relationship.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.