Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get..
What happens in somebody's house down the street does in very deed have an effect on what happens in my house and how it's treated..
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward..
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us..
Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.].
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.].
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….
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; a….
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the sam….
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed..
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable..
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners..
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust..
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed..
The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not..
Words are but holy as the deeds they cover..
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out..
The only measure of what you believe is what you do..
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds..
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme..