The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

- Emile Zola

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

- Henry David Thoreau

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

- George Matthew Adams

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

- George Eliot

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

- George Eliot

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

- Edward Coke

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

- Edgar Cayce

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

- Euripides

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

- Emily Bronte

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

- Andy Stanley

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

- Douglas Coupland

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

- Democritus

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Charlotte Whitton

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

- Confucius

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

- Charles Spurgeon

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

- Chanakya

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

- Blaise Pascal

Trust comes from deeds.

- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

- Athanasius