Quotes About Deeds

action always prove, why words mean nothing

Don't tell people what you're doing, tell them what you did!

Over time, your actions betray your heart - for good or for evil.

Being lucky is in your hands as it's outcome of your deeds.

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

Every man is defined by his deeds.

Faith is never blind when others see it in our actions.

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness.

Deeds, not words, are the demonstration and test of character.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Fides pinguescit operibus—'faith fattens or becomes strong on works,' Luther.

Yet that, after such age, if a youth desired greatly to make the adventure, he should receive three lectures upon the dangers of which we had knowledge, and a strict account of the mutilatings and horrid deeds done to those who had so adventured.

Dostoevsky's...typically Russian emphasis on man as a collective being leads logically to his belief in our all-guilt; we are, again, in some mysterious manner, guilty of everybody's sins...Our own deeds, good or bad, are nothing but pebbles in the river of life that will be carried on and on until they somehow touch our remotest fellow man.

But if each day we gather some new truths, plant ourselves more firmly upon principles which are eternal, guard every thought and action, that it may be pure, and conform our lives more nearly to that Perfect Model, we shall form a character that will be a fit background on which to paint the noblest deeds and the grandest intellectual and moral achievements; a character that cannot be concealed, but which will bring success in this life and form the best preparation for that which is beyond.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." [2 Cor. v. 10]

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.