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Quotes About Deeds

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
~ Gustav Stresemann
There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a battlefield and faced an army with a Bible in his hands. We are here to do the bidding of our Lord Almighty, but it is through deeds, as well as piety, that we serve Him.
~ Robyn Young
We have to tell our stories—in literature, film, theater, and other media—but we must also manifest cultural memory in communal deeds—in mourning and in celebration, in solemn remembrance and festal joy.
~ Rod Dreher
What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
~ Roland Merullo
What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part, what you do." "But
~ Roland Merullo
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
~ Ron Chernow
You know best who you really are by watching what you do rather than listening to what you say.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.
~ Ronlyn Domingue
What you think is not the point. What you do is what's going to count.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Higher you step up to the ladder of success.. lesser you need to speak about yourself.. your deeds should do so.
~ Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
I applaud those who speak, but I admire those who act.
~ Steve Maraboli
Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Words of love are works of love.
~ William Rounseville Alger
him; they gladly fought for Israel. He extended the glory of his people. Like a giant he put on his breastplate; he girded on his armor of war and waged battles, protecting the host by his sword. He was like a lion in his deeds, like a lion's cub roaring for prey. He searched out and pursued the lawless; he burned those who troubled his people.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet.
~ Samuel Park
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
~ Santa Montefiore
Inerrancy is our guarantee that the words and deeds of God found in the Bible are unified and true, declaring with one voice the wonders of his saving love.
~ Scott Hahn
The wild desires no longer win us, The deeds of passion cease to chain; The love of Man revives within us, The love of God revives again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In life like a flood, in deeds like a storm I surge to and fro, Up and down I flow! Birth and the grave An eternal wave, Turning, returning, A life ever burning; At Time's whirring loom I work and play God's living garment I weave and display.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are
~ John Bytheway
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
~ John Calvin
PSALM 112    As the majority of mankind expect to prosper by evil deeds, and as they   generally endeavor to enrich themselves by plunder, fraud, and every   species of injustice, the prophet enumerates the blessings of God which   attend those who worship him in purity, in order that we may know that,   in aiming at a life of piety and morality, we shall not lose our   reward.
~ John Calvin
God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So
~ John Calvin