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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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