Deed Quotes

One brave deed makes no hero.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

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

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

A good deed is a good deed.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

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.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

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.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

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

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

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.

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

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

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

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

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.

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!

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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.

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

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.