Top 81 Quotes About Deeds Not Words
#1. I take my cue from deeds, not words.
Aeschylus
#2. Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
Stephen Hadley
#3. 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
#5. The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
Sarah Gavron
#6. Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#8. Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
Baha'u'llah
#9. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
Antoine Rivarol
#11. The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#14. 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
#15. Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
Lucius Accius
#16. To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart.
Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern.
George MacDonald
#17. 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
#18. Words that do not match deeds are not important.
Che Guevara
#20. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
Criss Jami
#22. 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
#23. Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.
Jeffrey Tucker
#24. My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
Laozi
#25. Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.
Franz Kafka
#27. I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
Ian Fleming
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#31. Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says.
Peter Wilkes
#32. Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.
Abdu'l- Baha
#33. 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
#34. We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
Ameen Rihani
#35. 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
#36. Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Marcus Aurelius
#37. 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
#38. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Thomas Sowell
#43. 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
#44. It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
Sallust
#45. 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
#46. If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
H. Burke Peterson
#47. We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
Chip Ingram
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
Buzz Aldrin
#51. 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
#52. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
#53. They'll respect deeds, Ethan, not words.
Chloe Neill
#54. 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
#55. A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Confucius
#56. 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
#57. Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
Allan Lokos
#58. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
Lloyd Alexander
#59. The message of Love is in the way I live my life, and not in my words or my deeds.
Paulo Coelho
#60. 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
#62. Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Laozi
#63. 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
#65. In other words, he explained, unless we bear witness to God's presence by our own good deeds, He is not present.
Thomas L. Friedman
#66. If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
Lao-Tzu
#69. 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
#70. If we are what we repeatedly do, how many times did you express gratitude today? Showing that you're grateful is the only way to be a grateful human being. Saying the words is not enough; you have demonstrate it through deeds.
Toni Sorenson
#71. Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
Marcus Aurelius
#72. 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
#73. Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
#74. We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
Confucius
#76. 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
#77. Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)
Chanakya
#78. People should not be judged by origin, affluence or spoken words, but
primarily by their deeds.
Eraldo Banovac
#79. Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#80. It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Sophocles
#81. Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Jonathan Sacks
