Quotes About Deeds

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

The center of my sins stuck behind a blocked door, circled by hollow deeds spread on my lifetime's floor

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

It was a good place to sit and listen, under a sky that had seen so much and heard so much that one more wicked deed would surely make no difference. Sins, thought Mma Ramotswe, are darker and more powerful when contemplated within confining walls. Out in the open, under such a sky as this, misdeeds were reduced to their natural proportions—small, mean things that could be faced quite openly, sorted, and folded away.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

To assert that a man can lose his salvation through what he does or does not do is to assert, in the final analysis, salvation by works.

And Allaah is not unaware of what you do.

When all is said and done, more is always said than done.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

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.