Top 1200 Good Deed Quotes & Sayings

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

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 an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

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 lay open the soul of the doer.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

A good deed is the best prayer.

Even a smile is a good deed.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

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

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

A good deed is a good deed.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

No good deed ever goes wasted.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

The memory of a good deed lives.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

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

A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.