Quotes About Deeds

As thoughts possess the fashion of the mood That gave them birth, so every deed we do, Partakes of our inborn disquietude That spurns the old and reaches toward the new.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

He contrasts it with eloquence. And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds! Paul says, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." We all know why. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?

she lives for God imagining that she lives for men..One good deed - a cup of water given without the thought of reward - is worth more than any benefit I imagined I was bestowing on people. ..My share of sincere desire to serve God was there, but it was all soiled and overgrown by desire for human praise..

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Great-Man" view of the British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), who asserted that history is dominated by the deeds of great men, such as Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

It should not be thought, moreover, that this manner of thinking is peculiar to Catholics; it is that of every dogmatic religion in which belief is made into the essential thing rather than deeds.

Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing is out of the question.

INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of. GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds. INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Good work instead of long prayers.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.