| "Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time." »Haniel Long |
| "The Whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told" »Nez Perces |
| "Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison." »Buddha |
| "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." »Peter Marshall |
| "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 |
| "Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift." »Homer |
| "Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones." »The Belzer Rabbi |
| "The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby." »I Ching |
| "man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." »Saint Basil |
| "You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer |
| "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." »Buddha |
| "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do." »Phillips Brooks |
| "What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave." »The Talmud |
| "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." »George Eliot |
| "deeds, not words shall speak to me." »John William Fletcher |
| "Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are." »John Dykes |
| "deeds, not words shall speak me." »John Fletcher |
| "Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words." »Father Jerome Cummings |
| "Such evil deeds could religion prompt." »Lucretius |
| "He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another." »Seneca |
| "Words have a longer life than deeds." »Pindar |
| "Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds." »Democritus |
| "Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word." »William Shakespeare |
| "Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds." »Charles Fox |
| "Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination." »Ovid |
| "deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great." »John L. Motley |
| "Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |