Deeds Quotes

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

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

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.