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Quotes About Deeds

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?
~ Thomas Jefferson
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.
~ Elizabeth II
Only God is good.""We can make good works, We can be called good folksWe can do good, but we cannot be good.
~ Mac Canoza
Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.
~ Gugu Mona
Sometimes you will do good things and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.
~ Gugu Mona
And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
~ Tony Abbott
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
~ John Ruskin
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
~ Ouida
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
~ Tacitus
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
~ Barack Obama
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
~ Arthur Erickson
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
~ Thomas Browne
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
~ Victor Hugo
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
~ Christopher Marlowe
What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
~ Gene Wolfe, The Wizard
Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
~ Brennan Manning
Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
~ Hany El-Banna
Well done is better than well said.
~ Benjamin Franklin
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
~ Gautama Buddha
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
~ John Fletcher
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
~ Carl Jung