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

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John Milton

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

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
John Owen

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

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Douglas Horton

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
Douglas Horton

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois Rabelais

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

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
James Baldwin

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Islom Karimov

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

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Elie Wiesel