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

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

- William Shakespeare

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Thought is the parent of the deed.

- Thomas Carlyle

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

- Sarah Doudney

Even a smile is a good deed.

- Shari Arison

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

- Roger Nash Baldwin

The better day, the worse deed.

- Matthew Henry

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

- Lewis Mumford

A good deed is a good deed.

- John Lee Hancock

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

- Jonathan Sacks

One brave deed makes no hero.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

- John Burroughs

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Horace

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

- Fulton J. Sheen

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

- Edward Young

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

- Emile Zola