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.