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• Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Giving, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Actors, Done, Cages

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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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• Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Action, Motive, Malice

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.524

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• Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it'. When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

  Niels Arden Oplev

  Revenge, Drama, Eye

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 9, 2013.

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• The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Eye, Men

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.525

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• Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

  John Locke

  Children, Independent, Thinking

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

  Voltaire

  Men, Action, Virtue

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

  Francis Bacon

  Honor, Riches, Action

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.51, 谷月社

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• A good action is preferable to an argument.

  Voltaire

  Action, Argument

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.126, Penguin

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• Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.

  George Harrison

  People, Giving, Want

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

  Owen Feltham

  Faith, Water, Want

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• If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pride, Men, Done

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.71

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• There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rewards, Action, Consciousness

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• Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Water, Mountain

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• An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Hypocrite, Mad

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

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• Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Men, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

  Mary McCarthy

  Regret, Thinking, Action

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Play, Culture, Morality

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• The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Yield

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• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Kindness, Perfection, Succeed

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• Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that...is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever.

  Kim Du-han

  Drama, Knowing, People

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• The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Eye, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.73

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