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

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

In great deeds something abides.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

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

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

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 he was meant and made to do.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

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.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

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

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

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

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

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

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

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

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

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

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

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

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.