“Mighty in deeds and not in words.”
Mächtig in Werke, nicht in Worte
“We are the children of our own deeds.”
“Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.”
“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”
“Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.”
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
“Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning”
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
“Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.”
“Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.”
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
“The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.”
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
“In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.”
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
“Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.”
“Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.”
“The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
“That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.”
“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?”
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
“Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.”