Doing Good Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Literature, Matter

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Inspiration, Fighting

  "The Last Lecture".

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• I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Believe, People, Merit

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• NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Space, World, Complicated

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• Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

  Mother Teresa

  Moving, Generosity, Joy

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.323, Image

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• The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

  Paula Fox

  Conscious, Minutes

  "A qualified optimist" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2003.

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• God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.

  John Piper

  Children, Mean, Age

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.181, Multnomah

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Inspirational Life, Self Confidence, Lazy

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

  Joseph Hall

  People, Giving, Purpose

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• I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Hippie, Knows

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Kindness, Men, Service Culture

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Charity, Pay

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.33

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• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Bridges, Rivers

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.332, Penguin

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• I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

  John Donne

  Lost, Communion, Communion With God

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• By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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• Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  People, Feel Good, True Life

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.17, Harmony

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