A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
