Quotes on 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.

Author: Aeschylus

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Author: Walter Annenberg

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Author: Abraham Cahan

In great deeds something abides.

Author: Joseph Chamberlain

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Author: Chanakya

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

Author: Jon Corzine

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Author: Democritus

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Author: George Eliot

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Author: Ralph Emerson

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Author: Robert Greene

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

Author: Saint Gregory

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Author: Lee Hamilton

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Author: Herodotus

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Author: Hesiod

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Author: Tama Janowitz

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

Author: Robert Lee

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

Author: Tom Lehrer

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Author: David Mallet

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Author: Peter Marshall

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

Author: Zell Miller

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Author: Knute Nelson

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Author: Sarah Palin

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

Author: Daniel Palmer

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Author: Gilbert Parker

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Author: Rosa Parks

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Author: Blaise Pascal

Let deeds match words.

Author: Titus Plautus

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Author: Plutarch

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Author: Plutarch

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

Author: Protagoras

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Author: William Shakespeare

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Author: Dodie Smith

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Author: Sophocles

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Author: Sophocles

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Author: Sophocles

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Author: Harriet Stowe

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Author: Lao Tzu

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Author: Lech Walesa

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Author: Charlotte Whitton

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Author: Kong Zi