Top 74 Not Words But Deeds Quotes
#1. External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds.
Tim Hiller
#2. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
#4. Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.
Kim Jong-un
#5. Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom ... Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
Robert Cialdini
#8. The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#9. When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.
Theodore Roosevelt
#11. If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.
Eric Ambler
#12. Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
John F. Kennedy
#13. Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
John Ruskin
#14. For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
Sarah Palin
#15. The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.
Confucius
#16. Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
Douglas Horton
#17. A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Confucius
#18. Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Czeslaw Milosz
#19. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow ...
John Fletcher
#20. But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
#21. True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
Julian Baggini
#22. Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.
Others may misunderstand my good intentions,
judge my words or deeds, find fault,
or blame what they truly do not understand.
But God knows my heart.
He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,
to be all He created me to be.
Lori Nawyn
#23. We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.
Mikhail Bakunin
#24. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do - for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.
Khalil
#25. When we don't like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about "termination of potential life." Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.
Neal A. Maxwell
#26. In this age of decadence that we live in, people's minds are twisted and only words are loved but not preactial deeds.
Renee Ahdieh
#27. Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
#28. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#29. May our light shine in this world
so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love
and our compromising words of truth
and give glory to your hallowed name,
Father
John Piper
#30. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
Napoleon Hill
#32. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
#33. There are people in this world who do not dream.
They may try to stop you by their words and deeds,
but like air, you can rise above it all.
Dream, then follow your dreams
and you will be unstoppable.
Jose N. Harris
#34. Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#36. We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#37. People should not be judged by origin, affluence or spoken words, but
primarily by their deeds.
Eraldo Banovac
#38. Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
Stephen Hadley
#41. Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
Henry Van Dyke
#42. I take my cue from deeds, not words.
Aeschylus
#43. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
#44. And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2
William Shakespeare
#45. It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Laozi
#49. The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.
Caedmon
#50. But whom to love?
To trust and treasure?
Who won't betray us in the end?
And who'll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?
Alexander Pushkin
#52. I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.
Confucius
#53. Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
Barack Obama
#54. When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
Zhuangzi
#55. Win minds with your words.
Win hearts with your deeds.
Win souls with both.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.
Ivan Bunin
#57. Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#58. What Jesus did and said was designed to give a decisive answer, in deeds as well as words, to the question, What would it look like if God was running things?
N. T. Wright
#59. You are writing a gospel, A chapter each day, By the deeds that you do And the words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithful or true: Just what is the gospel According to you? - SOURCE UNKNOWN
Warren W. Wiersbe
#60. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
Lloyd Alexander
#63. Brand integrity is the ability to present one's brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand's promise).
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#64. The message of Love is in the way I live my life, and not in my words or my deeds.
Paulo Coelho
#65. The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.
Anuj
#66. Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee ... Give me my rapture today.
Van Morrison
#67. It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
Horace Mann
#69. You receive in return what you plant with your words and your deeds.
Bethanee Epifani
#70. A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...
Emmeline Pankhurst
#71. The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.
Paul Haggis
#72. The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage
Xenophon
#74. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich