Good Deeds Quotes

• The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Character, Deeds Done

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• Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

  Zoroaster

  Three, Deeds, Good Thoughts

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• Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

  Democritus

  Kind Deeds, Sin, Remembered

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• There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

  Evangeline Booth

  Inspirational, Helping Others, People

  Evangeline Booth, Grace Livingston Hill (1919). “The War Romance of the Salvation Army”

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Deeds, Kind, Influence

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

  Muhammad

  Brother, Thinking, Humanity

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• No good deed ever goes wasted.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Deeds

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• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

  Sophocles

  Men, Kind Deeds, Deeds Done

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29

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• What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

  Leonard Sweet

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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  I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

  Ben Harper

  Funny, Life, Heaven

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

  Muhammad

  Positive, God, Islamic

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• The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Military, Future, Noble

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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• The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Rewards, Done, Deeds

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• One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Waiting, Dying

  1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

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