Doing Good Quotes - Page 8

• I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

  Socrates

  People, Wish, Might

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• The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

  Henry Ford

  Country, People, Political

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Complaining, Easy

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• Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion

  Swami Vivekananda

  Universal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2955, Manonmani Publishers

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• And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.

  Charles Kingsley

  Spring, Grateful, Heart

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

  Jay Leno

  Good Night, Virginia, President

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• There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opportunity, Liberty

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 5 : Responsibility and Freedom, 1960.

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Men, Evil

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.21

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• The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Mean, Careers

  "'Hamlet's' Ethan Hawke Has More on His Mind Than Movie Stardom". Interview with Robert Dominguez, www.nydailynews.com. May 11, 2000.

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• Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

  Gautama Buddha

  Independence, Ifs

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• We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Lying, Mean, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 129, 1895.

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• It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

  Rene Balcer

  Enough

  "Fictional character: Arthur Branch". "Law & Order: Criminal Intent/ In the Wee Small Hours: Part 2", November 2005.

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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• Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.

  Derek Jacobi

  Sexy, Unique, Knowing

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• When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

  Meek Mill

  Mean, Thinking, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

  Howard Gordon

  Effort, Proud, Stuff

  "Kiefer Sutherland and Howard Gordon Talk 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, How Jack Bauer Fits into a Post 9/11 World, Shooting in London, and a Movie Update". Interview, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.

  Steve Wozniak

  Design, Shy, Clubs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

  Madhur Mittal

  Bollywood, Hollywood, Roles

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• Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

  Max Beesley

  Lying, Ambition, Heart

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• If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Angel, Reflection

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.205

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• I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Thinking

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• No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enemy, Desire, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Inspiration, Mean

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