Doing Good Quotes - Page 14

• If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. It was said of Him that He “went about doing good.” As we do likewise, the Christmas spirit will be ours.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Teaching, Years

  "What Is Christmas?". www.lds.org. December 1998.

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• Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Prayer, Headstone, Understood

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

  William Penn

  Men, Suffering, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Mean, Long, Doe

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• Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Healing, Heart, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 10, 2013

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• It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

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• The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Would Be, Harm

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• If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

  Pope Francis

  Religion, Atheism, Encounters

  "Pope at Mass: Culture of encounter is the foundation of peace". Vatican Radio, May 22, 2013.

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• God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior’s example and spend the days of their lives doing good.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Blessed, Humble, Soul

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• In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Patriotism, United States

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.359, Vintage

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• When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Rose, Heaven, Earth

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