The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
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.
~By Diane Watson ~
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By David Horowitz ~
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
~By Jon Corzine ~
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
~By Islom Karimov ~
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
~By Hesiod ~
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
~By Charles Reade ~
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~By Sallust ~
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
~By Herodotus ~
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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.
~By Jon Corzine ~
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.
~By Robert N. Lee ~
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
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.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
~By Philip Schaff ~
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
~By Max von Sydow ~
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
~By Rosa Parks ~
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
~By James Allen ~
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
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.
~By Ferdowsi ~
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.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
~By David Mallet ~
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~By Allan Bloom ~
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~By Peter Marshall ~
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
~By Pindar ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
~By Saint Gregory ~
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
~By James Baldwin ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
~By William Shakespeare ~
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.
~By Protagoras ~
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
~By Plutarch ~
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
~By Sophocles ~
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
~By William Greider ~
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.
~By James Woods ~
The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
~By Benjamin Netanyahu ~
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
~By George Eliot ~
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
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.
~By Saint Basil ~
In great deeds something abides.
~By Joseph L. Chamberlain ~
Let deeds match words.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
~By Lech Walesa ~
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
~By William Shakespeare ~
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
~By Plutarch ~
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
~By Lucretius ~
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.
~By John Locke ~
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
~By Zell Miller ~
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~By Edward Coke ~
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
~By Richard Mentor Johnson ~
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
~By Sophocles ~
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
~By Democritus ~
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
~By Malcolm X ~
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.
~By Euripides ~
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
~By Chanakya ~
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
~By Albert Camus ~
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~By George Eliot ~
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
~By Jon Corzine ~
I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
~By Kurt Huber ~
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
~By Jean Paul ~
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
~By Robert Greene ~
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.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
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.
~By Janos Kadar ~
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
~By John Dewey ~
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
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