Doing Good Quotes - Page 13

• Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Dream, Add

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• My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Education, Nice, Play

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• My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

  Kevin Durant

  Acting, Calm, Sometimes

  "Quite the busy offseason for Durant". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. September 24, 2011.

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• No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

  Jared Diamond

  Government, Forever, Literature

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• I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

  Bill Griffith

  Artist, Problem, Artwork

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• Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

  Dalai Lama

  Forgiveness, Adversity, Forgiving

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

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• Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

  Plato

  Spring, Helping Others, Helping

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• There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Feel Good, Brain, Body

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• I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must
  keep moving forward and not think much.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Moving, Thinking, Being Positive

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• It’s important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

  Shari Arison

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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• Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

  Shari Arison

  Positive Thinking, Simple, Deeds Done

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• We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

  Biz Stone

  Impact, Years, Sales Person

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• In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Differences, People, Feel Good

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 20, 2013

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• The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by good men, because good men would not tell lies by saying 'Thus saith the Lord;' it was not written by bad men because they would not write about doing good duty, while condemning sin, and themselves to hell; thus, it must be written by divine inspiration

  Charles Wesley

  Lying, Inspiration, Angel

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• 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

  Men, Heaven, Stamps

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• If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Joy, Everyday

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• We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Pain, Way

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin

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• It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

  Swami Vivekananda

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Principles, Justified

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• Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Forgiving, Energy, World

  D. Patrick Miller (2017). “The Forgiveness Book: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve”, p.41, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.

  Steve Scalise

  Fighting, Opportunity, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

  Jim Wallis

  Religious, Thinking, Organization

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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 Reid

  Secret, Want, Interest

  "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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Actors, Motivated

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• A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Selfish, Mean

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