Doing Good Quotes - Page 3

• I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Acting

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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• I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
  [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Way, Goodness

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• True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

  Pope Francis

  True Love, Evil, Suffering

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• What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Believe, Impact, People

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

  J.R. Miller

  Cheer, Joy, Privilege

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• To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mean, Exercise, Use

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.518, Ravenio Books

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• It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Literature, Matter

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

  Confucius

  Giving Up, Hate, Practice

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• The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Men, Ideas, Praise

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

  Seth Green

  Moving, Careers, Good Work

  Biographу/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Names, Perfect

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

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• What's the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What's the price of that? And I don't know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I'm a different person. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Soul, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'

  Venus Williams

  Air, Littles, Sentimental

  "Venus Is Back at the Controls". January 20, 2004.

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• I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  World, Around The World, Environment

  "Django Unchained action figures pulled after civil rights outcry" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will be determined by our joint efforts. Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine. What is really important is that this is the work of the Master. Our work is to go about doing good as did He.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Opportunity, Effort, Progress

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• Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Stars, Mean, Home

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• Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Christian, Men

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Eye, Compassion

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• True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Winning, Evil, Catholic

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• I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Ideas, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.141, Advaita Ashrama

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• Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

  Arianna Huffington

  World, Making Money, Exclusive

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.44, Harmony

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• Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

  Thales

  Good Life, Blame, Golden Rule

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Iː36, 1925.

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