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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Seneca

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Herodotus

Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones.

Niccolo Machiavelli

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S Truman

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Douglas Coupland

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Jewish Proverb

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Ovid

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Pierre joseph Proudhon

Composers are doers of deeds.

Roger Sessions

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot

Our focus is on deeds and not so much words and personalities.

James Rubin

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Therese Of Lisieux

There were other dictators on the continent whose deeds have not yet attracted filming interest.

Idi Amin

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

John Fletcher

A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.

Russian proverb

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Democritus

Deeds are males, words females are.

John Davies

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

Antoine de Saint Exupery

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Hiawatha

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

H Ross Perot

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Charles Fox

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Marian Evans

Deeds speak more than words.

Oliver Ivanovic

The interpretation of the deeds will set the tone in Kansas.

Fred Johnson

Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.

The Belzer Rabbi

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Emily Bronte

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

Elie Wiesel