Doing Good Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour and there's electricity from the audience, if you're getting a good response, then that's the positive side of the mojo where I could feel cocky and just know I'm doing good and then there's a time all of a sudden when you're alone and you just don't know if people will like it.

  Kurt Vile

  Cocky, People, Mind

  "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.

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• I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

  George Eliot

  People, Way, Charity

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.417, Wordsworth Editions

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• All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

  Lydia M. Child

  Selfish, Failure, People

  Letter to John Fraser, 1868.

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• The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

  Albert Camus

  Dog, Powerful, Men

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

  Joseph Hall

  People, Wealth, Rich

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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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• The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Television Commercials, Actors

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• Do well by doing good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wells

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Fun, Hate

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Hypocrite, Want, Next

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• Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Men, Independence

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• By doing good, we do well.

  Rajiv Shah

  Poverty, Wells

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• Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Action, Goodness

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.27

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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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• If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.

  Amy Poehler

  Goal, Stuff, Succeed

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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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• There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, Wickedness, May

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.36, Litres

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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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