[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

— Nouman Ali Khan

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

— Donald P. Ryan

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

— Andy Stanley

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

— Emily Bronte

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and…

— John Barth

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

— William Shakespeare

A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes…

— Alan Keyes

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

— Zygmunt Bauman

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most…

— Matthew Simpson

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office…

— J. Oswald Sanders

The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The…

— Francis Quarles