Quotes About Do Good

#1. He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake

#2. I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

Marlon Wayans

#3. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.

William Shakespeare

#4. Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. 16 And don't forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God.

Anonymous

#5. He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.

Clint Hester

#6. You can only do good if you feel good.

Denis Waitley

#7. The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do good and do well, too.

Thomas Perez

#8. But I say unto you which hear, aLove your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and apray for them which despitefully use you.

Anonymous

#9. It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.

Martin Luther

#10. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

#11. Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

John Bunyan

#12. When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

Sathya Sai Baba

#13. O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Nazr Mohammed

#14. We can still be good people, even if we don't say or do good things all the time.

Eileen Cook

#15. I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

Kenyon Martin

#16. It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.

Chris Cleave

#17. It costs you something to do good!

Zora Neale Hurston

#18. Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.

Anonymous

#19. When you learn to trust your guts instinct and your ability always, you're ultimately giving yourself the possibility to do good things".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#20. There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Ben Jonson

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

Rene Balcer

#22. I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of very intelligent people sitting around trying to do good, I immediately get kind of suspicious and squirm in my seat.

Charlie Munger

#23. I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings.

Raylee Johnson

#24. Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

Victoria Osteen

#25. You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#26. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Anonymous

#27. I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good ... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.

Gabi Hollows

#28. In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm.

Peter Coleman

#29. Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#30. Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Charles Francis Richter

#31. You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#32. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

Rabindranath Tagore

#33. Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Sholom Rokeach

#34. As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Billy Graham

#35. I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Randall Park

#36. Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

Matthieu Ricard

#37. One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.

Ted Malloch

#38. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

Albert Einstein

#39. Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

Justin Theroux

#40. When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Arthur Guiterman

#41. We all have the duty to do good.

Pope Francis

#42. The prescription for perplexed people who are tempted to be pessimistic is to rejoice, do good, and recognize that our ability to work, eat, and drink is the gift of God.

J. Grant Howard

#43. Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

E. W. Scripps

#44. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God's voice is no longer heard; the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades.

Pope Francis

#45. I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

Jeff Tweedy

#46. I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#47. I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

Darryl Dawkins

#48. I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

Christian Bale

#49. It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage ... On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

Martin Luther

#50. You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

John Boyega

#51. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Anna Quindlen

#52. You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Harry Browne

#53. It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

David Almond

#54. Satan never tempted Jesus with evil; Satan tempted Jesus with good. Satan enticed Jesus to go ahead and do good and to bring it about by the most direct way possible.

Brian Zahnd

#55. It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

David Cassidy

#56. [About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Jennifer Beals

#57. To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Plutarch

#58. It doesn't seem like them, somehow, I said. They don't usually do good by stealth. No, Julian agreed, their left hand usually knows perfectly well what their right hand is doing.

Barbara Pym

#59. However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Oliver Heaviside

#60. You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

Yanni

#61. In the evening, I would tell my patients, sleep with the angels. In the morning, I would say to each as the French farmers still do, "Good morning to your and your companion" - meaning, of course, their angel.

Eileen Elias Freeman

#62. Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made.

June Stoyer

#63. It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Richard Dawkins

#64. I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.

Charlize Theron

#65. It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

Shari Arison

#66. People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.

Daniella Alonso

#67. Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

Pat Robertson

#68. Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.

Leigh Bardugo

#69. There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Leo Tolstoy

#70. There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

Eliphas Levi

#71. I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

Guy Pearce

#72. The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Helen Keller

#73. Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

James E. Faust

#74. One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Mark Twain

#75. I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Frank Oz

#76. For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#77. Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

Giles Matthey

#78. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Garrison Keillor

#79. If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

#80. A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

Bilal Philips

#81. Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.

Miyuki Miyabe

#82. The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

Linus Torvalds

#83. The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Sun Tzu

#84. How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love

Robin S. Sharma

#85. We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God's favor, but with the favor of His help.

Alex Brett Harris

#86. A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

George Sand

#87. To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Robert Browning

#88. Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Robert E.Lee

#89. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Sara Zarr

#90. I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

Takeru Kobayashi

#91. 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

#92. I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Angela Bettis

#93. The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#94. ...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

Chris Marlow

#95. Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

Susan Cooper

#96. Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aurelius

#97. Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Swami Vivekananda

#98. The bad news is there is nothing we can do good enough to get us into Heaven.

Billy Graham

#99. To do good to oppressors, however, to pray for those who mistreat you, to entrust yourself to the just Judge, requires a child to come face-to-face with the poverty of his own spirit and his need of the transforming power of the gospel.

Tedd Tripp

#100. You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

Ramakrishna