Deeds Quotes

Man is remembered by his deeds.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

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

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.