Deeds And Words Quotes

• When deeds speak, words are nothing.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Inspirational, Life, Deeds Done

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• When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

  Zhuangzi

  World, Transformation, Accord

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

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Kind, Good Deeds

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Would Be, Should

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Buddhist

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

  Peter Marshall

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

  Seneca the Younger

  Proof, Should, Duty

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• 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

  God, Men, Differences

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

  Ian Fleming

  Deeds, Poet, Deeds Not Words

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spring, Buddhism, Law Of Attraction

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• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Life, Deeds Done

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.

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• Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Deeds, Deeds Not Words, Brethren

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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Silence, Grace, Quality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Men, Thinking

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• Born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Law Of Attraction

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• Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Fate, Destiny

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• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

  Success, Men, Deeds Done

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Purpose, Fugitive

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• 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

  Hands, Mind, Narrators

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• 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

  Angel, Night, Long

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