Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

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.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

A man is great by deeds not by birth.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace both in words and deeds. By contrast the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.

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.

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.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Other famous men those of much talk and few deeds soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

In all our deeds the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily but good deeds live forever.

When I look at President Obama I see a leader with a cool head a caring heart and an open mind a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds the book of their words and the book of their art.

Fail I alone in words and deeds? Why all men strive and who succeeds?