(381 quotes found)
“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The deed is all, the glory nothing.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The deed is everything, the glory is naught.”
“It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts”
Elbert Hubbard
“From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,The place is dignified by the doer's deed.”
William Shakespeare
“Here I am who did the deed.”
Virgil
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.”
John Locke
“Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.”
Buddha
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
T.S. Eliot
“No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.”
Sophocles
