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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. Joe Haldeman

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Mattie Stepanek

Deed, not words shall speak me.

John Fletcher

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Ausonius

No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

Tom Hodgkinson

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

Saint Ignatius

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Frank Pittman

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Thomas Mann

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

William Shakespeare

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Yahya Jammeh

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Sophocles

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Brendan Behan

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Johann Most

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Quintus Ennius

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Josiah Royce

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Amelia Earhart

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

William Shakespeare

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

Charles Eastman

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

Paul P. Harris

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Albert Schweitzer

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

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

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

William Shakespeare

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

William Butler Yeats

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

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 Blackwood

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

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

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross