Top 1200 Deeds And Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

I'm not a man of many words, I don't like to talk much. I prefer deeds, sacrifices and showing that what matters is the team.

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

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.

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

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

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

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect.

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

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.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

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

Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

There are hearts to gladden... kind words to say... gifts to be given... deeds to be done.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.