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Quotes about Deeds

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
- Ashley Montagu
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.
- Anonymous
It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
- Barbara Kingsolver
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
- Harry S. Truman
Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
- Shane Claiborne
Deeds, and not words, are what count most.
- Napoleon Hill
The Word didn't become flesh to establish a new religion. He became one of us to restore a broken relationship. He came to restore the true worship of God, which doesn't presume to earn His blessing through good deeds but rejoices in the unmerited favor He delights to give. Unfortunately, the roots of pride run deep into our flesh; therefore, the ability to accept grace does not come naturally, only supernaturally.
- Charles Swindoll
Love is a commitment. Love is not just saying something, but doing something about what you say. Anybody can say the word, but few actually say it and live it.
- Chris Fabry
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
- John F. Kennedy
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
- William Hazlitt
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
- Victor Hugo