Quotes About Deeds

So our livesIn acts exemplary, not only winOurselves good names, but doth to others giveMatter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

That is, he made boasts. But boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

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

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

The end of man is action.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Talking is easy, action difficult.