Deeds Quotes

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The first faults are theirs that commit them; the second theirs that permit them.

Better do it than wish it done.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

Long tongue – short hands.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

A good deed is never lost.

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us. (Macbeth)

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to […]