Quotes about Deeds

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are."   Bulstrode's

We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character.

Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'

That from genus to species i.e.emplified in 'Here stands my ship'; for lying at anchor is the 'standing' of a particular kind of thing. That from species to genus in 'Truly ten thousand good deeds has Ulysses wrought', where 'ten thousand', which is a particular large number, is put in place of the generic 'a large number'.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.