Deed Quotes

570 quotes by 422 authors

So shines a good deed... in a weary world. — Gene Wilder
I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean? — Charlie Flynn
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine… — Robert Browning
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause… — Nicholas Grimald
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke — Brendan Behan
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider… — Rudolf Dreikurs
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single… — Hannah Arendt
Unsung, the noblest deed will die. — Pindar
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee,… — Thomas Carlyle
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it… — Gorgias
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden. — Blaise Pascal
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed. — Isaiah Berlin
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to… — Muhammad
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch… — Gautama Buddha
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three. — Gautama Buddha
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering. — Gautama Buddha
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire. — Gautama Buddha
Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile. — Muhammad
Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to… — Muhammad

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