For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
~By Robert Greene ~
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 ~
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.
~By Hiawatha ~
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
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 ~
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
~By Jon Corzine ~
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.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
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 ~
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
~By John Milton ~
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 ~
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~By George Eliot ~
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
~By Plutarch ~
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
~By Tama Janowitz ~
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 ~
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~By Buddha ~
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
~By Emily Bronte ~
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
~By Lech Walesa ~
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
~By Geronimo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
~By John Ruskin ~
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
~By George Eliot ~
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
~By Dodie Smith ~
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
~By Malcolm X ~
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 ~
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~By Sallust ~
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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 ~
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
~By Lucretius ~
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 ~
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
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 ~
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
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 ~
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
~By Sophocles ~
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
~By Pindar ~
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
~By Democritus ~
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.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Let deeds match words.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In great deeds something abides.
~By Joseph L. Chamberlain ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
~By Emile Zola ~
He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
~By Saint Gregory ~
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
~By Plutarch ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
~By John Dewey ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
~By Zell Miller ~
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
~By Rosa Parks ~
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 ~
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
~By Robert Browning ~
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
~By Jose Marti ~
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 ~
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~By Edward Coke ~
Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.
~By Robert N. Lee ~
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 ~
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Ben Harper ~
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.
~By George A. Smith ~
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 ~
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
~By Chanakya ~
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