Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed That my own soul has to itself decreed.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.
In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?