Doing Good Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
  [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Way, Goodness

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• I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

  Pope Francis

  True Love, Evil, Suffering

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• What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Believe, Impact, People

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mean, Exercise, Use

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.518, Ravenio Books

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• Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

  J.R. Miller

  Cheer, Joy, Privilege

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• I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Heart, Greatest Fear

  Interview with Nirmal Kumar Bose on 9-10 November 1934, Modern Review, p. 412, October 1935.

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• More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Responsibility, Impact

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• I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sea, Water, Atheism

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.185, Collector's Library

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• There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Samuel Butler

  Evil, May

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

  Brandy Norwood

  Children, Kids, Helping Others

  "Brandy named international youth spokesperson for UNICEF". www.mtv.com. July 29, 1999.

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• My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

  Al Franken

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

  Holly Madison

  Daughter, Mother, Real

  "Holly Madison: Boyfriend Pasquale Rotella and I Are 'Wackos,' Have Pretend Conversations With Our Baby 'All the Time'". Us Weekly Interview, www.usmagazine.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

  Brandon Lee

  Live Your Life, Leaving, Immortality

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• ... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

  Edward Said

  Attitude, Fighting, Reality

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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

  Home, Found, Harm

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.217, Dial Press

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• Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Tyrants, Evil, Social Justice

  Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sobriety, Stuff, Someday

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –

  David O. McKay

  Loyalty, Self, Expression

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• It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

  Brigham Young

  Evil, Dies

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• Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Feel Good, Church, Care

  Ann Rinaldi (2002). “Amelia's War”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in 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. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Children, Believe, Men

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

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• She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Atheist, Sake, Blame

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.107, Broadview Press

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