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. I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I'd be distracted or I wouldn't be as committed as the rest of you, but who's more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who've got nothing left?
Bill Blais
#6. 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
#7. If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare
#8. Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.
Muhammad
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#14. But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. 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 Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.
Muhammad
#16. Fear Godp and keep his commandments,q for this is the duty of all mankind.r 14For God will bring every deed into judgment,s including every hidden thing,t whether it is good or evil.
Anonymous
#17. 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
#18. This is Hell. And Frannie and her demon put me here!
No good deed goes unpunished.
Lisa Desrochers
#19. No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
#25. Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.
Kyo
#26. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Edgar Magnin
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
Marcus Aurelius
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
#35. May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. 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
#38. Mario the Magnificent is Orange! His eyes sparkle with eagerness as he winks at me.
Bill Blais
#39. One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
Zoroaster
#41. He reminded himself as he turned another corner - glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there - the deed was the thing, not the praise.
Raymond E. Feist
#42. As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religios one.
Dalai Lama XIV
#45. the smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention
Duguet
#46. 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
#47. To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
#48. 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
#49. The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.
Stephen Fry
#50. One little deed done in time is worth more than a thousand good intentions.
Cindy Woodsmall
#51. I'm in a secret underground hideout of a group of monster hunters, filled with magical totems, brass monkeys that move and enough firepower to take over a small country.
Bill Blais
#53. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil The Great
#54. I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Viktor E. Frankl
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.
Shari Arison
#62. When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it
Martin Luther
#64. Look, I didn't ask for any of this, but I'm here now. I get that it's dangerous. I get that I'm fat. I get that I'm about as far from prepared for this insanity as you can get. But I'll tell you something about me: I don't quit. So enough with the let's-scare-the-fat-girl routine, okay?
Bill Blais
#65. In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
Thomas A Kempis
#66. Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.
Gautama Buddha
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.
Guru Nanak
#70. 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
#71. As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.
Spark Matsunaga
#72. 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
#73. 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
#75. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart
#76. Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I'd done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.
Clive Barker
#78. 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
#79. No good deed goes unpunished.' Langdon
Dan Brown
#80. 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
#81. That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.
Walter Moers
#82. 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.
Thomas A Kempis
#83. 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
#84. If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
Sarah Doudney
#85. Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will.
Edmund Spenser
#86. Philadelphia, where no good deed goes unpunished . . . - STEVE LOPEZ The Philadelphia Inquirer January 15, 1995
Craig Johnson
#87. Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
#88. I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
Wilson Mizner
#89. Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.
Stephen Richards
#90. 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
#91. In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.
Zoroaster
#92. Well, I can feel superior for my good deed." I flashed him a smile. "How's that for a selfish reason?
Kim Harrington
#93. The tiniest good deed Reverberates Forever Through the Universe The tiniest bad deed Finds Echo Only In our own Heart
Joseph Mcgill
#95. Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
O hateful error, Melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engendered thee.
William Shakespeare
#96. The memory of a good deed lives.
Aesop
#97. Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
Hamza Yusuf
#98. Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
Zoroaster
#99. I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. I was going to die and I'd just saved his freaking life. No good deed goes unpunished.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
