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Quotes About Deeds

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
~ Pat Conroy
Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do.
~ Patricia Hampl
However, it is not the immediacy of such experiences that tells us that it is the Spirit of God in Christ by whom we are being formed. Rather, the proof, if not the comfort, lies in the person we become and the deeds that flow from us. The tree is known by its fruit.
~ Dallas Willard
Jesus, God reminded him, had saved them all . . . saved them from their own apathy. With two deeds, Jesus had opened their eyes. Horror and Hope. The crucifixion and the resurrection. He had changed the world. But that was millennia ago. Time had eroded the miracle. People had forgotten. They had turned to false idols-techno-deities and miracles of the mind. What about miracles of the heart!
~ Dan Brown
secret's value is not in what you know, but in what you do.
~ Dan Millman
But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination's struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good, That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence, and to show How quiet death is. Where soil is men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers; but for me, There is no depth to strike in
~ Dan Simmons
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
~ H. Burke Peterson
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
~ Mark Twain
Our actions are the ground we walk on.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.
~ Luke Zeller
The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.
~ Barbara Boxer
Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.
~ Stephen Richards
What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
~ Jean Paul
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.
~ William Congreve
The fame of good men?s actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles? distance.
~ Chinese
that's what love-driven leaders do. They see further. They move themselves beyond what blocks our vision in order to see what a fairer, more welcoming world might look like. They point the way to a future in which true men and women will enjoy greater chances to reach their potential. And leaders guided by the resolve that "love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words" help create that better future.
~ Chris Lowney
First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words.
~ Chris Lowney
I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.
~ Christine de Pizan
In the country where I'm traveling - Tibet - people believe if they walk long distances to holy places, it purifies the bad deeds they've committed. They believe the more difficult the journey, the greater the depth of purification.
~ Heinrich Harrer
Action speaks louder than words.
~ Heinz Guderian
When I trained my hawk I was having a quiet conversation, of sorts, with the deeds and works of a long-dead man who was suspicious, morose, determined to despair. A man whose life disturbed me. But a man, too, who loved nature, who found it surprising, bewitching and endlessly novel.
~ Helen Macdonald
Time is not measured by the years that you live But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give- And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone That would brighten the life or lighten the load Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road- So what does it matter how long we may live If as long as we live we unselfishly give.
~ Helen Steiner Rice