It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts


Elbert Hubbard

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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To stand on the
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Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture.
These spiritual deeds are the greatest acts to self-d...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts w...
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Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man,...
ATHARVA VEDA
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.
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I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
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If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...
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Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
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DONNA TARTT
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GARY RYAN BLAIR
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throb...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
EDGAR CAYCE
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having i...
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if it is confirmed that it is true, we would be, I insist, facing very serious acts, acts that are n...
ANTONIO ALONSO
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up...
MAYA ANGELOU
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER
Of all the righteous acts, help rendered to those needing it, is the most righteous.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou...
DAVID BAILEY
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou...
ARISTOTLE
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We sho...
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Basically it acts as a companion and also like an extension of the record and vice versa.
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[The] report, with its detailed description of acts of torture, makes for difficult reading, but it ...
PAUL CAVALLUZZO
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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STEVEN STRAIT
He sees it as a battle between good and evil. He sees it as the evil being the acts of individuals, ...
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Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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HARRY STYLES
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
EDWIN ARNOLD
Nowhere in Hubbard's record is there any mention of him going into combat, ... Hubbard lied about th...
DAVID RICE
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tir...
CRISS JAMI
It's likely that some of those acts will end up at Marymoor or the winery.
DAVE LITTRELL
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m...
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You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
It acts more or less like the body.
LARRY BOWERS
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
You will see some, or probably most, of those acts play the market.
DAVE LITTRELL
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, ...
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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS
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Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the f...
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
SWAMI SIVANANDA
I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts...
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremo...
J. L. AUSTIN
Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The key proposal is the intention of the person who acts or by their statements seems to incite othe...
BILL RAMMELL
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE
The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness o...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the d...
EMILY THORNE
That training really helped us on the second time around, ... It was one of those acts of fate.
JIM LOVELL
If a person’s deeds are truly better, then his words are bound to be greater; but if his words are...
ANUJ SOMANY
We do have some holes in some of our teachers' backgrounds.
DONNA DEEDS
Grief is grief. It's always a little backwards when a young person dies, regardless of their age.
DONNA DEEDS
We don't teach to the test. We teach a lot more than that. We teach to our standards.
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing ...
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
SOCRATES
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a m...
ALLAN BLOOM
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of c...
THIRUVALLUVAR
A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
UNKNOWN
Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
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Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see it growth, but, it does by days....
BUDDHA
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
CHANAKYA
[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of fa...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those tha...
WILLIAM LAW
It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those wh...
IKE SKELTON
...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. T...
JOHN STEINBECK
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Inside is foam that acts like a sponge, when they're rolled up and air is forced out they're compact...
WAYNE COLWELL
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Our focus is on deeds and not so much words and personalities.
JAMES RUBIN
Deeds, not words.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the l...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT HUBBARD
A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
ELBERT HUBBARD
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Life is just one damned thing after another.
ELBERT HUBBARD
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
ELBERT HUBBARD
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
ELBERT HUBBARD
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
ELBERT HUBBARD
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the f...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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