Top 100 A Deed Quotes
#1. He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
#2. Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
#3. The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else.
C.J. Redwine
#4. The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.
Edwin Muir
#5. You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?
Marcus Aurelius
#6. And pity, like a new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind.
William Shakespeare
#7. It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood
#8. You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.
Jeff Foxworthy
#9. Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.
Marianne Williamson
#10. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.
George Orwell
#11. And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2
William Shakespeare
#12. Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.
Muhammad
#13. A prayer without a deed is an arrow without a bow-string; A deed without a prayer is a bow-string without an arrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Paulo Coelho
#14. We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
Viktor E. Frankl
#15. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
J.G. Holland
#16. Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
Henry Van Dyke
#17. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.
Liane Merciel
#19. Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller
#20. I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
Etty Hillesum
#21. The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola
#22. Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.
Rebecca Ruter Springer
#23. It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.
Frank Iero
#25. If a deed is done, it's time to move on.
Vicki Myron
#26. Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#27. God isn't like a candy machine. We can't insert a good deed and receive a blessing. Then we'd be in charge, not him.
Sarah Sundin
#28. Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.
Tanith Lee
#29. Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.
Wallace Stevens
#31. Whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.
Johanna Spyri
#32. One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Saint Ignatius
#33. A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...
Emmeline Pankhurst
#34. Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.
Kate Klise
#35. Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#36. A mole or defect on a person is supposed to be caused by a fairy nipping him before birth. A matted lock near the neck of a sleeping child is called an elflock and is the deed of a mischievous fairy
Astra Cielo
#37. Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
#38. A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal
#39. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#41. Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
Arthur Erickson
#42. Truly, "the bravest are the tenderest; the loving are the daring." How generous - how truly brave the man who would thus dare death! who would, at the risk of life, perform a truly Christian deed!
Mary Ann Loughborough
#43. But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
Theodore Bikel
#44. Prayer isn't just a noun, it's a verb too. It's an action. As long as you exercise your prayer muscles, you'll have the strength you need to do the deed.
April Erwin
#45. A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.
Vikrmn
#46. The history of the development of any urban center will be incomplete without a mention of the role of mass transit in the whole process. In deed the role of mass transit as a catalyst of industrial revolution and urbanization cannot be over emphasized. In the case of the New
Clifford N. Opurum
#47. That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.
Christopher Paolini
#48. Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.
Angelica Hopes
#49. Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.
James Lee Burke
#50. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.
Elizabeth George
#51. OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to consider
that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but
are,in very deed, GHOSTS !
Thomas Carlyle
#52. When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
Elvis Presley
#54. Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.
Paul Di Filippo
#55. Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. What is the point of me?
Either to change a world-many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth-or nothing at all.
Claire North
#57. The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.
Sigmund Freud
#58. For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#59. As always when we bought a new home, Victor asked the questions about deed restrictions and taxes, while I asked the two questions I was always responsible for: "Has anyone ever died in the house?" and "How many bodies are buried on the property?
Jenny Lawson
#60. No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman
#61. When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius
#62. It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance ...
Christine De Pizan
#63. Well, she sure don't hold the deed on grief and loss, son. We all been mussed and mauled by bad times. But that girl's done gone and shut down. I met gray people with more personality." She tapped her temple with a finger. "I'm beginning to suspect there ain't nobody home.
Jonathan Maberry
#64. 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
#65. We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is't you do?
A deed without a name.
We were as quiet as the gravestones around us.
Tessa Gratton
#66. Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise." Book of Arda Viraf (circa 6th century) ZOROASTRIAN RELIGIOUS TEXT
Rhonda Byrne
#68. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.
Salman Rushdie
#69. Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#70. That thing ruined my favorite T-shirt," complains Mario.
"Whatever." It's Marianne's voice. "You were just looking for a reason to get your shirt off." I try to look around for her, but my neck refuses.
Bill Blais
#71. When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed.
Mary Shelley
#72. Do I strike you as a frivolous man, Kelly?"
I look at him, sitting there in another thousand dollar suit. Pompous? Yes. Self-centered? Yes. Careless? "No.
Bill Blais
#73. A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful words: God is self-sufficient and forbearing.
Anonymous
#74. He fate of the poor both locally and globally will to a grave extent determine the quality of life for those who are lucky enough to have class privilege. Repudiating exploitation by word and deed is a gesture of solidarity with the poor.
Bell Hooks
#75. Let us ask the Spirit of Truth to set a watch upon the door of our lips, allowing nothing to pass out on which he cannot set his seal. Whatever we do, in word as well as deed, let us do all in the name and for the glory of Jesus.
F.B. Meyer
#76. Cromwell saw that the destruction of these men would not only ruin Ormonde's military power, but spread a helpful terror throughout the island. He therefore resolved upon a deed of "frightfulness" deeply embarrassing to his nineteenth-century admirers and apologists. Having
Winston S. Churchill
#77. It has been a prosy day for us," she said thoughtfully, "but to some people it has been a wonderful day. Some one has been rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today-- or a great poem written-- or a great man born.
L.M. Montgomery
#78. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
#79. The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
Jean Giraudoux
#80. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
#81. God will bring into judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.
~Ecclesiastes 3:17
Jessica Fortunato
#82. The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#83. Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.
Kyo
#85. You seem to be under the misconception that if you perform one brave deed, that alone makes you a samurai. Well it doesn't! you let that one act of loyalty convince you of your righteousness. The more convinced you became, the more harm you caused yourself and everyone else.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#86. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#87. Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church - and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.
Yann Martel
#88. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows.
Philip Kerr
#90. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. He
Oscar Wilde
#91. The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
D. Elton Trueblood
#92. Neil Leckman
I had a friend once that told me when we die and get to the pearly gates we are admitted based on our deeds.
1 good deed is a step forward
1 bad deed is two steps back.
By the time he's through with you I'm not sure you'll even be able to see the gates!!
Neil Leckman
#93. I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?
Charlie Flynn
#94. One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
Sri Aurobindo
#95. Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#96. Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying.
Billy Graham
#97. So in the end, what is a moment? One action? A single deed? Or is it more? Is a moment like a school of silver fish? The sum of many singular parts forming one cohesive unit? I tend to think so. Because the moment I met Ryan, that was just one of the sum parts.
Marie Hall
#98. And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
William Shakespeare
#99. 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.
Sidney Poitier
#100. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Al-Ma'arri
