Quotes About Deeds

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.

That's the power of faith in action. It's not about talking and judging. It's about doing.

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

Speaking less and doing more says more.

By faith you can work miracles and perform heroic deeds

We must depend on God's grace for every good deed.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do.

with ever new delight The nectar-sea of deeds by Ráma done. Hail, arch-ascetic, pious

Lo que uno piensa y escribe cuando está solo no puede decirse que sea la verdad. La verdad es lo que uno hace en realidad, la manera en que se comporta. Las obras, no las palabras, es lo que cuenta.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our activities.

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

Apparently Washington's adage of "deeds not words" was utilized to convey to his grandson the importance of the Sabbath, the significance of regular worship, and the value of the reading of the scriptures. Conway's charges are eviscerated in light of the testimony of the one who was allegedly not evangelized by Washington!

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

The deeds of the heroes, in the sacred dream-time...the only time, according to the bushmen, that was real.

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts not breaths, in feelings not fingers on a dial. We should count time in heartthrobs; he most lives who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best.