Quotes About Deeds

History reveals a person's deeds—their outward character but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life rounded by a dream—unpenetrated, unguessed.

Well-intentioned people are often blind to the results of their good deeds.

good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.

God is what you do, not what you believe in.

We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

parents, teachers, and coaches pass on a growth mindset not by having a belief sitting in their heads but by embodying a growth mindset in their deeds: the way they praise (conveying the processes that lead to learning), the way they treat setbacks (as opportunities for learning), and the way they focus on deepening understanding (as the goal of learning).

Actions lie louder than words.

Criminals are free and make choices. Responsibility accrues and repentance is required. Among Dostoevsky's many complaints against socialism . . . was its promise to replace this radical freedom with material and mental security. Hence one of Dostoevsky's great paradoxes: the healthy, free mind demands continual destabilization and doubt if it is to exercise acts of faith, but our deeds are stable, answerable, and belong to us alone.

He knew himself a villain—but he deem'd The rest no better than the thing he seem'd; And scorn'd the best as hypocrites who hid Those deeds the bolder spirit plainly did. He knew himself detested, but he knew The hearts that loath'd him, crouch'd and dreaded too. Lone, wild, and strange, he stood alike exempt From all affection and from all contempt

Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd, having o'er itself no further power, prompts deeds eternity can not annul.

Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds.

Noble words, but words were easy. Deeds were hard. - Brienne

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

English proverb

Talkers are no good doers.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.