Deeds Quotes

A good deed is a good deed.

— John Lee Hancock

“What is good is good.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Let deeds match words.

— Plautus

Deed done is well begun.

— Dante Alighieri

Every little deed counts.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Deeds survive the doers.

— Horace Mann

Even a smile is a good deed.

— Shari Arison

“Good deeds have echoes.”

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

— John Fletcher

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

— Marcus Aurelius

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

— Jean Paul

A little water clears us of this deed.

— William Shakespeare

“Is there any good works without grace?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

— Anonymous

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

— Stanislaw Lem

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

— Sallust

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I…

— Rudyard Kipling

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are”

— George Elliot

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

— Van Morrison

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

— Albert Einstein

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected…

— Martin Delany

When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need.…

— Russell M. Nelson

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the…

— Vivian Vande Velde

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

— Gautama Buddha

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true…

— Swami Vivekananda

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table,…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his…

— James Allen

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder…no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the…

— Susan B. Anthony

You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are…

— Malcolm X

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,…

— Anonymous

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes…

— Shari Arison

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at…

— Honore de Balzac

Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not…

— Samuel Beckett