Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

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

Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Emily Bronte

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

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.
Janos Kadar

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

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Max von Sydow

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
Kurt Huber

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
William Kingdon Clifford

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.
Aeschylus

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

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

In great deeds something abides.
Joseph L. Chamberlain

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider

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

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.
Diane Watson