#Deeds Quotes

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”

“The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,Though to itself it only live and die'But if that flow'r with base infection meet,The basest weed outbraves his dignity:For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

“Words pay no debts, give her deeds.”

“The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.”

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

“Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.”

“Talkers are no good doers.”

“How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!”

“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.”

“It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.”

“Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.”

“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”

“What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.”

“Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.”

“The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds”

“Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.”

“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”

“When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.”

“Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.”

“Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.”

“Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.”

“I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .”

“The words you've bandied are sufficient;'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.[Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]”

“My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.”

“Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.”

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”

“I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.”

“We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.”

“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”

“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”

“A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.”

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”

“The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

“It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.”

“Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.”

“Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.”

“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”