Quotes about deeds-and-good-deeds

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.

— St. Basil

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

— Buddha

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

— Leonard Cohen

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

— Eliza Cook

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

— George Eliot

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

— T. S. Eliot

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

— Henry Ford

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

— Kahlil Gibran

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

— Herodotus

We are the children of our own deeds.

— Victor Hugo

How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

— Charles Lamb

Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning

— Midrash

Mighty in deeds and not in words.

— Motto

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

— Thomas Paine

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

— Blaise Pascal

Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.

— French Proverb

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

— Sir Walter Raleigh

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.

— Sir Joshua Reynolds

Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

— Schines

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

— Albert Schweitzer

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

— Dodie Smith

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

— Sophocles

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.

— The Talmud

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

— Henry David Thoreau

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

— Henry David Thoreau

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.

— E. T. Trigg

Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.

— Source Unknown

O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

— Source Unknown

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention

— Source Unknown

That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

— William Wordsworth

It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.

— Jeffrey Fry

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

— James Russell Lowell

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

— George Eliot