Top 100 Quotes About Doing Good
#1. God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior's example and spend the days of their lives doing good.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#2. Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.
Susan Isaacs
#3. The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.
Louis C.K.
#5. The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire
#6. Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.
J.R. Miller
#7. True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.
Pope Francis
#8. Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.
Keke Palmer
#9. 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
#10. I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.
Aamir Khan
#11. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
#12. Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
Brandon Lee
#13. Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.
Shari Arison
#14. Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.
Francois Fenelon
#16. Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
Ofra Strauss
#17. The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.
Lorenzo Snow
#18. 9Let us not become weary in doing good,o for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.p 10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do goodq to all people, especially to those who belong to the familyr of believers.
Anonymous
#19. ACT10.38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Anonymous
#20. 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
#21. Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
#23. She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
Gregory Maguire
#24. Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#25. Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"
"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.
Scott Westerfeld
#26. Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Philip Sidney
#27. There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
Fanny Lewald
#28. Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
D. Patrick Miller
#29. The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
Horace Mann
#30. Charity does not mean doing good to him who does good to you, for this is to return good for good. Charity means that you should do good to him who does you harm
Anonymous
#31. You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Tom Lehrer
#33. That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
Charles Dickens
#34. It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.
Origen
#35. Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.
Shari Arison
#36. Doing Good to others sometimes Brings Bad to you
DK Publishing
#37. In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ...
Gertrude Himmelfarb
#38. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
#39. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. Karna a bad man doing good things or is he a good man doing bad things?
Kavita Kane
#41. If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
Dalai Lama
#42. My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
Jeffrey Tambor
#43. Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#45. You do not exist in this world to get things done. You exist to glorify God by doing good to others.
Tim Challies
#46. Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.
M.F. Moonzajer
#49. 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
#50. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#51. True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
Alphonsus Liguori
#52. The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Patti Smith
#53. Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
John Vanbrugh
#54. If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.
Keke Palmer
#55. Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
George Bernard Shaw
#56. God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
F.F. Bruce
#57. So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
Amy Poehler
#58. 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
#59. You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.
Frederick Lenz
#60. 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
#61. Do not be tired of doing good things. Victory comes after the battle; the crown follows the fight; the same way, behind purposeful actions is a great deal of success. Don't give up on the fight. Fight till them end; win till all is won.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. Heaven's work never ceases, and men should never rest from doing good. The
Ellen G. White
#63. Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#64. Everyone likes to think they are doing good while at the same time pocketing a bag of cash,
Margaret Atwood
#65. We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could
Robert Frost
#67. I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.
Steve Scalise
#68. Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
Carly Patterson
#69. It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.
Samir Okasha
#70. Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods
Montesquieu
#71. To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
Dorothea Dix
#72. Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.
Charles Spurgeon
#74. I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.
Teresa Heinz
#75. It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.
Rene Balcer
#76. Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.
Adoniram Judson
#77. 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
#78. Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
J. R. Martinez
#80. Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Louis Auchincloss
#82. 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
#83. As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Richard Dawkins
#84. No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
Jared Diamond
#86. Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless.
Kemi Sogunle
#87. The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
Henry Ford
#88. The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.
John Piper
#89. By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Vernon Howard
#90. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#91. I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must
keep moving forward and not think much.
Madhuri Dixit
#92. 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
#93. Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. 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
#95. I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
Kristen Stewart
#97. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.
Emilio Estevez
#98. Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Douglas Horton
#99. I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
Rose Kennedy
#100. Doing good aid required a time commitment - not a week, not a month, but years.
Jessica Alexander
