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Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

You always succeed in producing a result.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often.

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou - let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

'Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.'[10]

Everything you do reverberates throughout a thousand destinies. As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action.

Moreover, and above all, let us remember that words count only when they give expression to deeds, or are to be translated into them. The leaders of the Red Terror prattled of peace while they steeped their hands in the blood of the innocent; and many a tyrant has called it peace when he has scourged honest protest into silence. Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read. By the same test the world must judge me. But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

Jesus Christ, by their fruits ye shall know them, not by their disclaimers.

Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.

Some twenty years ago I stopped talking about the Babe for the simple reason that I realized that those who had never seen him didn't believe me.

Talk is cheap... It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

In order to examine ourselves thoroughly, let the case be proposed in the strongest manner. What, if I were to see a Papist, an Arian, a Socinian casting out devils? If I did, I could not forbid even him, without convicting myself of bigotry. Yea, if it could be supposed that I should see a Jew, a Deist, or a Turk, doing the same, were I to forbid him either directly or indirectly, I should be no better than a bigot still. O stand clear of this! But be not content with not forbidding any that casts out devils. It is well to go thus far; but do not stop here. If you will avoid all bigotry, go on. In every instance of this kind, whatever the instrument be, acknowledge the finger of God. And not only acknowledge, but rejoice in his work, and praise his name with thanksgiving. Encourage whomsoever God is pleased to employ, to give himself wholly up thereto. Speak well of him wheresoever you are; defend his character and his mission. Enlarge, as far as you can, his sphere of action; show him all kindness in word and deed; and cease not to cry to God in his behalf, that he may save both himself and them that hear him. I need add but one caution: Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. It is not impossible, that one who casts out devils himself, may yet forbid you so to do. You may observe, this is the very case mentioned in the text. The Apostles forbade another to do what they did themselves. But beware of retorting. It is not your part to return evil for evil. Another's not observing the direction of our Lord, is no reason why you should neglect it. Nay, but let him have all the bigotry to himself. If he forbid you, do not you forbid him. Rather labour, and watch, and pray the more, to confirm your love toward him. If he speak all manner of evil of you, speak all manner of good (that is true) of him.