Deed Quotes

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul.

Joseph Campbell

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Unknown

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

T. S. Eliot

A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

Unknown

Taking the first footstep with a good thought the second with a good word and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise.

Zoroaster

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

Saint Basil

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Seneca

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!

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Josiah Royce

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Josiah Royce

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

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

John Barth
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