Quotes About Deeds

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

As long as I did the good things associated with religion, I thought I was in good shape spiritually, too.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

But the Owners really valued the Crow's Nest partly as a cultural institution and partly because it gave them access to the sort of information about the lives, thoughts, and deeds of important persons that could only be had in a bar.

some darting about for Earthly advantage, others attending to the faraway deeds of Angels, still others lost in contemplation of what it all means.

The first: No good deed goes unpunished. (A phrase, ironically, that was coined by a woman, Clare Boothe Luce.) The