Top 100 Good Deed Quotes
#1. Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
#2. The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else.
C.J. Redwine
#3. 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
#4. You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.
Jeff Foxworthy
#5. 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
#6. If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare
#7. Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.
Muhammad
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#13. But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#14. 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
#15. This is Hell. And Frannie and her demon put me here!
No good deed goes unpunished.
Lisa Desrochers
#16. No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman
#17. 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
#18. If I hadn't stopped to thank the ghoul, I might not be covered in rotting, slimy, dead guy. I shook my head ruefully and continued walking. No good deed goes unpunished.
E.J. Stevens
#19. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
#20. Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.
Kyo
#21. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Edgar Magnin
#22. 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
#23. Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
Marcus Aurelius
#24. 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
#25. What is Faith? When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer. What is Sin? When a thing disturbs (the peace of) your heart, give it up.
Anonymous
#26. When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.
Russell M. Nelson
#27. Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
#28. One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.
Jenna Morasca
#30. One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
Zoroaster
#34. the smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention
Duguet
#35. A good thought is a spark in the world,
a good desire is a flame in the sky,
and a good deed is a bonfire in the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
#37. What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
Edwin Gaustad
#38. The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.
Stephen Fry
#40. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil The Great
#41. I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Viktor E. Frankl
#42. A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one.
Junayd
#43. It seems there is no such thing as a purely good deed, a completely right action. Even this task, which i took on for the very best of reasons, involves making choices that are not that "good", choices that might even be "wrong".
Salman Rushdie
#45. A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.
Adhish Mazumder
#47. A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.
Shari Arison
#50. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#51. When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#52. cram's with praise, and make's
As fat as tame things.
One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages; you may ride's
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
With spur we heat an acre.
William Shakespeare
#53. As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.
Spark Matsunaga
#54. The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Leo Tolstoy
#55. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart
#58. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.
Vasily Grossman
#59. No good deed goes unpunished.' Langdon
Dan Brown
#60. One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.
Walter Moers
#62. A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#63. If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
Sarah Doudney
#64. Philadelphia, where no good deed goes unpunished . . . - STEVE LOPEZ The Philadelphia Inquirer January 15, 1995
Craig Johnson
#65. Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
#66. I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
Wilson Mizner
#67. God, in His mercy, tells us that a good deed is recorded as soon as a person decides to perform it, while a bad deed is only recorded after it has been performed.
G. Willow Wilson
#68. Well, I can feel superior for my good deed." I flashed him a smile. "How's that for a selfish reason?
Kim Harrington
#69. The tiniest good deed Reverberates Forever Through the Universe The tiniest bad deed Finds Echo Only In our own Heart
Joseph Mcgill
#71. The memory of a good deed lives.
Aesop
#72. Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
Hamza Yusuf
#73. Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
Zoroaster
#74. I was going to die and I'd just saved his freaking life. No good deed goes unpunished.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#75. In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
#76. The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Oscar Wilde
#77. If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
C.S. Lewis
#79. A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.
Ibn Rajab
#80. Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.
Shari Arison
#81. The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
Seneca The Younger
#82. [P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.
Francois Lelord
#83. Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something.
April Mae Monterrosa
#84. I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.
Walter Moers
#85. Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
Samuel Beckett
#87. Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God, for every good deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
David Helvarg
#89. I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
Desmond Tutu
#90. Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
Brander Matthews
#91. No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time.
But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed,
then it might be a good chance for you ...
to be a better man.
Toba Beta
#92. The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
Albert Schweitzer
#93. Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
Mark Twain
#94. Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
Abu Bakr
#95. I love you. I'm in love with you.
She heard absolutely nothing for ten full seconds. And when he did speak, she caught the faintest trace of fear mixed in with the annoyance.
Hell. No good deed goes unpunished.
Nora Roberts
#96. 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.
Muhammad
#97. Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
#99. A good thought is a spark,
a good desire is a flame,
and a good deed is a bonfire.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.
Cecelia Ahern
