Quotes About A Man Of Words And Not Of Deeds

#1. Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Ron Chernow

#2. 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

#3. be cleansed of that which is injurious to man and detracteth from his high station - among which is to take undue pleasure in one's own words and deeds, notwithstanding their unworthiness. True

Bahai Pubishing

#4. Words of a man were meaningless. But actions spoke volumes, and it was always through deeds that the true measure of a man could be ascertained.

Maya Banks

#5. Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#6. Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

#7. If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Rome changed the New Testament catholicity (which purifies and sanctifies as it's proper domain the whole of life) and has substituted in its place a dualism which separates the supernatural from the natural.

Henry R. Van Til

#9. Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

#10. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#11. Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

Sara Paxton

#12. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God
a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#13. It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.

Dennis Adonis

#14. Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. Every man is defined by his deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. If a man is good, he is good to himself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

Adolf Hitler

#18. If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

Rebecca Solnit

#19. The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but ... each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things.

Edith Wharton

#20. The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Confucius

#21. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

Lloyd Alexander

#22. I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

Riccardo Tisci

#23. 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

#24. 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