Top 76 One Good Deed Quotes
#1. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
#2. If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare
#3. When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.
Nouman Ali Khan
#4. If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
C.S. Lewis
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
Zoroaster
#9. Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.
Kyo
#10. 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
#12. I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Viktor E. Frankl
#13. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil The Great
#15. 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
#16. One little deed done in time is worth more than a thousand good intentions.
Cindy Woodsmall
#17. The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.
Stephen Fry
#18. 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
#19. To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
#20. 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
#21. the smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention
Duguet
#24. As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religios one.
Dalai Lama XIV
#25. 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
#26. Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Charles De Lint
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.
Shari Arison
#33. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.
Gurcharan Das
#42. If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn't a good deed, it's a self-serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you're fishing for others to do the same.
Donna Lynn Hope
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#49. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#51. 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
#52. This is Hell. And Frannie and her demon put me here!
No good deed goes unpunished.
Lisa Desrochers
#53. Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.
Muhammad
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.
Jeff Foxworthy
#57. 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
#58. The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else.
C.J. Redwine
#59. Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
Marcus Aurelius
#69. Mario the Magnificent is Orange! His eyes sparkle with eagerness as he winks at me.
Bill Blais
#70. 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
#71. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Edgar Magnin
#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. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman
