Doing Good Quotes - Page 2

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Helping Others, Joy

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• The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

  Douglas Horton

  Thinking, Example, Deeds

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Agreement

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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• The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

  Pope Francis

  Roots, Creation, Possibility

  "Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Respect

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• The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Honor, Fellow Man

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Rejoice, Gratification

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.612, Stanford University Press

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• No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

  Mandell Creighton

  People, Harm, Altruism

  In Louise Creighton Life (1904) vol. 2, p. 503

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• Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Where You Are

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Health, Religion, Liberty

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• Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Praying, Easier

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.155, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Benevolence, Creatures

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• If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Attention, Our Actions

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• Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, People, Here And There

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