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

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace

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

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

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.
Josiah Royce

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

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

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

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 H. Blackwood

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton J. Sheen

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

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma

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

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot

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

One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier