A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
In great deeds something abides.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.
Let deeds match words.
