Top 12 Deeds And Words Quotes

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Hands, Deeds And Words, Mind

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

Zhuangzi

Deeds And Words, World, Transformation

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.

Leo Tolstoy

God, Men, Deeds And Words

Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Elie Wiesel

Deeds And Words, Silence, Grace

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.

Caedmon

Angel, Night, Deeds And Words