Quotes on Deed

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Author: Ausonius

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

Author: Roger Baldwin

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Author: Lewis Bates

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Author: Brendan Behan

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?

Author: Algernon Blackwood

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Author: John Burroughs

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Author: Charles Eastman

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Author: T. Eliot

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Author: John Fletcher

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Author: Johann Goethe

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Author: Vincent Gogh

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Author: A. Housman

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Author: Muhammed Iqbal

No good deed goes unpunished.

Author: Clare Luce

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Author: Thomas Mann

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

Author: Lewis Mumford

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Author: Josiah Royce

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

Author: Josiah Royce

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Author: William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Author: William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Author: William Shakespeare

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Author: Gore Vidal

One brave deed makes no hero.

Author: John Whittier

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Author: Ella Wilcox

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

Author: William Yeats