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"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished." »Orison Swett Marden
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"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings." »The Buddha
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"The longer the title, the less important the job." »George Stanley McGovern
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"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel." »Andr Maurois
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"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness." »Robert Cecil
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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." »Virginia Woolf
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"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty." »Mark Twain
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"Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer." »Ayn Rand
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"You are what your deep driving desire is As your deep driving desire is, so is your will As your will is so is your deed As your deed is so is your destiny." »Maitri Upanishads
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"A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" »Mark Twain
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"The good extend their loving care To men, however mean or vile; E?en base Ch?nd?las?* dwellings share Th? impartial sunbeam?s silver smile." »The Hitopadesa
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"Word is a shadow of a deed." »Democritus
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"The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us." »William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2
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"The result justifies the deed." »Ovid
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"No good deed goes unpunished." »Clare Booth Luce
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"A good deed never goes unpunished." »Gore Vidal
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"The attempt and not the deed Confounds us." »William Shakespeare
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"Some people, you would think, are made up of nothing but title and genealogy; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise good nature or good manners." »L?Estrange
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence." »Dante Alighieri
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"From word to deed is a great space." »French Proverb
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"The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention." »Roger Baldwin
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"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning." »Horace
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"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds." »William Shakespeare
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"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention." »Anonymous
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"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
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"The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)" »Ovid, Heorides (c. 10 BC)
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"The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason." »T. S. Eliot
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