One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides

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

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

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare

The better day, the worse deed.
Matthew Henry

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Edward Young

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Roger Nash Baldwin

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola

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.
Josiah Royce

Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
Lawrence G. Lovasik

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

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

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

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