Doing Good Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

  Plato

  Spring, Helping Others, Helping

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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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• 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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• 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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• Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

  Shari Arison

  Impact, Circles, World

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

  William James

  Nice, Decision, Trying

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

  Baz Luhrmann

  Actors, Motivated

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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