Quotes About Deeds

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

You cannot inspire every person through your good deeds and action. But there are many who will be inspired.

Advising is easier than helping

Listen - listen to my advice! Only the good deeds which you have done shall remain with you, O my soul.

He seeks no advice when He builds; He seeks no advice when He destroys. He seeks no advice while giving or taking. He alone knows His Creative Power; He Himself does all deeds. He beholds all in His Vision. He gives to those with whom He is pleased.

If we feed the seed of an unselfish goal in our life with prominence, do our deeds with persistence, proceed with perseverance, accede patience; then we surely reap the result of a profound success with an excellence.

Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.

Some people go about doing good other people just go about.

There are people in the world who deserve paradise for their thoughts and hell for their deeds.

You are judged not by what you have but by what you do with that you have.

Regardless of whether or not man is free, is man "expected or obliged to account" for his actions to God? Yes, because Scripture says, "For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:14).

we are to hate both the evil people and their evil deeds.

God hates both the reprobate and his evil deeds, precisely because a person is the sum of his beliefs, thoughts, and actions.

I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds" (Revelation 2:23).

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do

that social-chauvinism (socialism in words, chauvinism in deeds)

When a warrior had enough feathers to make a war bonnet, he invited a few of his friends to his tepee. After enjoying a meal and smoking the pipe, they ceremoniously laid out the feathers and sorted them according to size. As each feather was being prepared, the story of the deed performed by the warrior in earning it was retold. Then the feather was fastened in its place on the war bonnet.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

The Ogre does what Ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man. But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.