Deed Quotes

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.