Famous Quotes & Sayings

King was persistent in her words and deeds of encouragement. She never wavered from her stance of non-violence as the only viable option for change.

Richard John Neuhaus

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person...

Zhuangzi

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

William Morris

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Joan Baez

The search is in the doing.

Lloyd Alexander

Count the deed, not the thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]

The leaders who do good deeds reside in the hearts of the people.

The interpretation of the deeds will set the tone in Kansas.

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

John Lee Hancock

A good deed is a good deed.

It seems that all this in our view falls under the heading of that facetious remark no good deed goes unpunished.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed

Emily Dickinson

A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot.

Walter Raleigh

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed

The wish is the father of the deed

Charles Eastman

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Blaise Pascal

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

We have a deed to it. We feel like we own that.

Dalai Lama

... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

Confucius

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

Confucius

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

Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers.

Those who are greedy and avaricious end up in misery. Because of their evil deeds they are short lived.

Those who are devoid of attachment, whose mind is fixed in knowledge, all deeds of such liberated persons dissolves away.

Thomas Browne

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

Thomas Lynch

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

Saadi

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

Sophocles

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

Tamara Ecclestone

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

Stendhal

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.