Deed Quotes

If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.

– William Shakespeare

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One brave deed makes no hero.

– John Greenleaf Whittier

No good deed goes unpunished.

– Clare Boothe Luce

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

– Ausonius

A good deed is a good deed.

– John Lee Hancock

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

– Roger Nash Baldwin

Thought is the parent of the deed.

– Thomas Carlyle