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Quotes About Deeds

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
~ Jane Austen
it isn't what we say or think that define us, what we do
~ Jane Austen
People show themselves not by what they say but by what they do.
~ Jane Green
It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.
~ Jane Green
And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
~ Ferdowsi
Words that do not match deeds are not important.
~ Che Guevara
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
~ Clement of Alexandria
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
~ Jason Fried, Rework
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve
~ Grenville Kleiser
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
~ Theodore Parker
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
~ Charles Spurgeon
He wound up with a ringing declaration that he had stood over deeds which had caused excommunication, that he still stood over them, and appealed to people to stop quoting the dead. His objective was to achieve something which the dead, the living, and the children yet unborn would approve of
~ Tim Pat Coogan
It follows further that the forgiveness of guilt is not within the province of any human office or authority, be it pope, bishop, priest, or any other. Rather, it depends exclusively upon the word of Christ and your own faith. For Christ did not intend to base our comfort, our salvation, our confidence on human words or deeds but only upon himself, upon his words and deeds.
~ Timothy J. Wengert
That person is not righteous who does many works but who, without works, believes much in Christ.
~ Timothy J. Wengert
Deje palabras quien ama, que sin obras todas vuelan; porque palabras y plumas dicen que el viento las lleva.
~ Tirso de Molina
Many apparently paranormal phenomena and amazing deeds attributed to supernatural powers can be partly explained - as Alexandra David-Neel herself pointed out - as the effects of mental training. Through concentration an extraordinary force can be developed which produces a form of energy.
~ Tiziana Baldizzone
It's not what you think that counts, it's what you do.
~ Tom Brokaw
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
And why did cheese decide to perform heroic deeds in France? Y por que el queso se dispuso a ejercer proezas en Francia?
~ Pablo Neruda
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
~ Pablo Picasso
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
~ Pablo Picasso
What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
~ Pablo Picasso