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 ~
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
~By Rosa Parks ~
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 ~
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 thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
~By Emile Zola ~
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
~By Zell Miller ~
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 ~
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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 ~
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 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 thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
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 ~
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
~By Plutarch ~
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 ~
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 ~
Man is remembered by his deeds.
~By Knute Nelson ~
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
~By Chanakya ~
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 ~
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
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 ~
It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.
~By Hiawatha ~
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 ~
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 ~
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
~By Bodhidharma ~
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 ~
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
~By Jon Corzine ~
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 ~
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
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 ~
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
~By Pindar ~
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 ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 ~
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
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 ~
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
~By Jose Marti ~
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~By Edward Coke ~
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 ~
Let deeds match words.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
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 ~
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
~By Robert Greene ~
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
~By Jean Paul ~
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
~By Dodie Smith ~
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
~By Hesiod ~
In great deeds something abides.
~By Joseph L. Chamberlain ~
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~By Peter Marshall ~
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
~By Malcolm X ~
He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
~By Saint Gregory ~
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 ~
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
~By Lao Tzu ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
~By William Shakespeare ~
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
~By John Dewey ~
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 ~
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
~By Geronimo ~
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
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 ~
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 ~
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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 ~
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~By Sallust ~
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
~By Plutarch ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
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 ~
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
~By Robert Browning ~
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 ~
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
~By Kong Fu Zi ~
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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