Quotes About Deeds

There are many people who say all the right things and never do any of the right things.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.

Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is that which we create ourselves. And that is what a work of art is, it is what a constructed life is, a fulfilled life, the warmth of acts.

Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

I love thee, London! for thy many men, And for thy mighty deeds and scenes of glory.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most--feels the noblest--acts the best.

It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.

Sing of my deeds Tell of my combats How I fought the treacherous demons Forgive my failings And bestow on me peace

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds, of speech that does not result in action," Roosevelt recalled. "I believe in realizable ideals and in realizing them, in preaching what can be practiced and then in practicing it.

Just as great valorous deeds are the consequence of swords,' here he paused to snuff the candle with his fingers, 'so great philosophic thoughts are the consequence of pens.

That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

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

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

He means well" is useless unless he does well.

Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.

All we can do is pray, Ma, pray. No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.