quotes about Doing Good
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
-- Bill Griffith -
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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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 -
There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
-- Fanny Lewald -
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
-- H. L. Mencken -
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By doing good we become good.
-- Jean-Jacques RousseauSource : Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.407, eKitap Projesi
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It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.
-- Jimmy ReidSource : "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
-- John Donne -
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.
-- John Rutledge -
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I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
-- Mandell CreightonSource : In Louise Creighton Life (1904) vol. 2, p. 503
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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.
-- Mark Salling -
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I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.
-- Mikhail Kalashnikov -
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
-- Paul the Apostle -
The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.
-- Paula FoxSource : "A qualified optimist" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2003.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.
-- Rene BalcerSource : "Fictional character: Arthur Branch". "Law & Order: Criminal Intent/ In the Wee Small Hours: Part 2", November 2005.
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Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.
-- Sean Parker -
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!
-- Susan Edmonstone FerrierSource : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1882). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. Edinburgh ed”
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It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good
-- Swami Vivekananda -
Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion
-- Swami Vivekananda -
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Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
-- ThalesSource : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Iː36, 1925.
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We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.
-- William JenkynSource : William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224
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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 -
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-- Zoroaster -
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I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.
-- Aya CashSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
-- Rose Kennedy -
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
-- John Gay