The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
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A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
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A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
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He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
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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.
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Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.
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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.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
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How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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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.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.
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How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul ...
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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
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'Tis a kind of good deed to say well, And yet words are no deeds.
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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Matthew 19:16:
Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, 'Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?'
(NIV)
And behold, there came a man up to Him, saying, Teacher, what excellent and perfectly and essentially good deed must I do to possess eternal life? [Lev. 18:5.](AMP)
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
(KJV)
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