Quotes About Deeds

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

The test of any man lies in action.

By his deeds we know a man.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it." This is the equivalent of saying that "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Habits are formed step-by-step through our every thought and deed. Either you control your habits or your habits will control you. If you are going to be successful, you will force yourself to build only the kind of habits that you are willing to let control you. "We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.

deeds, and not words, are what count most'.

Verba volent, words fly. Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks. Recall that I said that America's

Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds).

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

but I know of nobody who is atheist in both actions and words

Our perceptions and intuitions, as expressed in deeds, can be superior to what we know and tabulate

This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as a proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit. In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?

Perhaps that is why we must, by law, keep a record. A public journal, testifying to those who will never die and those who are yet to be born, as to why we human beings do the things we do. We are instructed to write down not just our deeds but our feelings, because it must be known that we do have feelings. Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?

We are instructed to write down not just our deeds but our feelings, because it must be known that we do have feelings. Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.