Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
~By George Eliot ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
~By Plutarch ~
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
~By Jon Corzine ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
~By Saint Gregory ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
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 ~
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Man is remembered by his deeds.
~By Knute Nelson ~
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 soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
~By Geronimo ~
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
~By Bodhidharma ~
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
~By Lech Walesa ~
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 ~
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
~By Robert Browning ~
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 ~
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 ~
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
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 ~
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
~By James Cash Penney ~
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
~By Lucretius ~
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 ~
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 ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
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 ~
Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.
~By Robert N. Lee ~
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 ~
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~By George Eliot ~
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
~By Emily Bronte ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
~By Lao Tzu ~
In great deeds something abides.
~By Joseph L. Chamberlain ~
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 ~
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
~By Jean Paul ~
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
~By Kong Fu Zi ~
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 ~
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
~By Democritus ~
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 ~
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 ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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 ~
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~By Edward Coke ~
Let deeds match words.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
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 ~
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
~By Malcolm X ~
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 ~
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
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.
~By Aeschylus ~
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.
~By Hiawatha ~
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 ~
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 ~
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
~By Dodie Smith ~
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 ~
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
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