“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.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
William Shakespeare
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
Voltaire
“I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.”
Barry C. Forbes
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds”
Buddha
“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.”
St. Basil
“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”
Aristotle