Quotes About Doing No Harm

#1. For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.

Ray Anderson

#2. Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

Margot Asquith

#3. If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm
but that's a lie ... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. This is one of the most dreadful evils of alcohol, that it kills insidiously, as if it were doing no harm, or as if it were doing good, while it is destroying

Martha Meir Allen

#5. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Amit Ray

#6. Edward shook his head. "I'm going to do the same thing with Miss Marshall that I do to everyone I love. I'm going to leave before I can do her harm."
Patrick looked at him, his mouth quirking skeptically.
"I will," Edward said. "Just as soon as I can get everyone else to leave her alone.

Courtney Milan

#7. President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

Daniel Ellsberg

#8. It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

#9. At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

William Adams

#10. Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Diane Frolov

#11. Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

G.A. Henty

#12. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

Ibn Taymiyyah

#13. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

Yoshida Shoin

#14. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

R. K. Milholland

#15. When I rehearse, it ends up doing more harm than good. I think I work a little bit better when it's right off the bat. Mostly, I try to wrap my head around a role as much as I can without rehearsing and then kind of make it as fresh as possible on the day.

Charlie Tahan

#16. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Leila Sales

#17. This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Johnny Rich

#18. It sounds bizarre, but I sort of understood why some people would cause physical harm to themselves when going through emotionally difficult times. Physical pain can make you forget just about everything else.

Brandi Glanville

#19. Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
harm's way every day, every week, every year.

James McGreevey

#20. One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no, - they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#21. Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Benjamin Franklin

#22. No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.

Michael R. Fletcher

#23. The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.

Desmond Tutu

#24. I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

Dermot Bolger

#25. Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.

Raymond E. Feist

#26. There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

Uday Kotak

#27. Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#28. There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

Sam Harris

#29. No one is free from uttering stupidities. The harm lies in doing it meticulously: Nae

Michel De Montaigne

#30. I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them ... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

Brian Harvey

#31. I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good ... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#32. There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

George MacDonald

#33. No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

Mandell Creighton

#34. Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

Jochen Zeitz

#35. She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm ...

Michelle Herman

#36. As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

Nathan Meyer Rothschild

#37. Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative pretensions, that our faiths do harm.

William James

#38. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Nancy Werlin

#39. It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Mindy McGinnis

#40. Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

Edward Said

#41. Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.

Tim Bowler

#42. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

Sharon Salzberg

#43. So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

Brad Meltzer

#44. If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

William Kingdon Clifford

#45. I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.

Chris Cannon

#46. It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

Denene Millner

#47. We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.

Richard Armitage

#48. The current practices of distributing resources are not sustainable and will continue to harm the environment if we do not evolve our methods into procedures that are more practical based on the needs of today's society.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#49. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.

Bob Mcdowell

#50. A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

Peter Jackson

#51. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

Rufus King

#52. Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

David Bowie

#54. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.

Maya Banks

#55. A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

W. Somerset Maugham

#56. I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.

Norman Vincent Peale

#57. Harm began to come to Hornblower from that day forth, despite his obedience to orders and diligent study of his duties, and it stemmed from the arrival in the midshipmen's berth of John Simpson as senior warrant officer.

C.S. Forester

#58. Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.

William Shakespeare

#59. I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Camille Claudel

#60. I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

Oleg Cassini

#61. He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her.

Margaret Mitchell

#62. We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord Rahl.
-Commander General Trimack

Terry Goodkind

#63. I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them

Henry Rollins

#64. Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

Jeff Lindsay

#65. While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Dorothy Denning

#66. Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

Ovid