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Quotes About Deeds

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
~ Plutarch
I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.
~ Jill Scott
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
~ Swami Vivekananda
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
~ John Ruskin
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
~ Ernest Gaines
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
~ Frederick William Faber
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
~ John Galsworthy
I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
~ Og Mandino
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
~ Napoleon Hill
Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
~ Judith McNaught
Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds
~ Henry Clarence Thiessen
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are.
~ Jim Croce
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
~ Patrick Ness
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
~ Jacques Santer
The deeds and motive of man define his personality.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Talking is nothing. Doing is something.
~ Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
Good deeds may not lead to heaven...still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already.
~ Palle Oswald
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~ Peter Marshall
In leadership, life and all things it's far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk" – Rasheed Ogunlaru
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita