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

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
George William Curtis

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
James Woods

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

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Edward Coke

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

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
Phil Bredesen

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Mason Cooley

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
James Cash Penney

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
Joshua Chamberlain

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing