Deed Quotes

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

Everything, Thought, Thoughts

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

Good, Far, Naughty

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, May, Thought

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Good, Words, Talking

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, War, Death

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.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

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

Deep, Words, Leave

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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Thought, Accept, Word

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything, Glory, Naught

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Goes, Unpunished

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer

Thought, Jesus, Against

A good deed never goes unpunished.
Gore Vidal

Good, Goes, Unpunished

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

Greatest, Wrong, Reason

Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle

Thought, Parent

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh

Good, Picture, Equivalent

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

Great, Done, Ask

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Greatest, Intention, Smallest

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

Judge, Kindness, Made

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

Alone, Light, Looks

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

May, Though, Seed

The better day, the worse deed.
Matthew Henry

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

Done, Made, Beginning

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal

Human, Ego, May

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek

Life, Work, History

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Lewis J. Bates

Snow, Plan, Cold

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

Men, Tongue, Ground

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.
William Feather

Life, Good, Help

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides

Good, Bad, Evil

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

Good, Home, Away

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