Quotes About Deeds

For as is indicated in the law that changes not, the manner in which ye treat thy fellowman, ye are treating thy Maker. Thus each individual soul-entity meets its ownself and must give an account for the deeds done in the body and in the body-mind. For that ye thinketh in thy heart, so are ye.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.

For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;

Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Our opinions, young Englishman, are the angel part of us; our acts the earthly.

How many are your deeds,Though hidden from sight,O Sole God beside whom there is none!You made the earth as you wished, you alone.

When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

Wealth and children are the adornment of this present world; but the abiding things, the deeds of righteousness, are better with God in reward, and better in hope.

Whoso has done an atom's weight of good shall see it; and whoso has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

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.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

But the test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do but what he actually does.

The courthouse was a low brick building that looked like a church without a steeple. Two heavy white columns stood on either side of the front doorway. Frank entered and asked an attendant where deeds were registered. He was directed to an office down the hall. In it was an old man, beside whose desk towered row upon row of thick volumes of records.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

I'm not going to win games by talking about it. Just by doing it.

The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

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

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.