Top 100 Quotes About Good Acts
#1. Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
James Mackintosh
#2. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Billy Graham
#3. Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
Albert Einstein
#4. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.
Vasily Grossman
#5. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato The Younger
#6. I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
C.S. Lewis
#7. Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
John Piper
#8. The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
Joseph Butler
#9. In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.
George Steinbrenner
#10. If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
Baron De Montesquieu
#11. for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God.
Timothy Joseph Golden
#12. Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.
Geoffrey Wood
#13. As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action
Maitreya Upanishad
#14. This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show.
Howard Thompson
#15. The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
Martin Denny
#16. Suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.
C.S. Lewis
#17. To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.
David B. Haight
#18. Reveal you soul only to God. Don't judge other by their acts, good or bad; still learn from what you see.
VIRGIL PROFEANU
#19. So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
George Chapman
#20. Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Marian Wright Edelman
#21. The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.
Sathya Sai Baba
#22. I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.
Amy Jo Martin
#23. But if my acts are good, sincerely intended, Then no matter where I turn my steps, The merit gained will honor me With its resulting benefits.
Santideva
#24. An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.
Christina Engela
#25. I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.
Alexandra Fuller
#26. Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws of society. We feel guilty doing things that nature has designed as perfectly natural.
Awdhesh Singh
#27. It's beautiful to have a smoking jacket, a good cigar and a wife who plays the piano. So relaxing. So lenitive. Between the acts you go out for a smoke and a breath of fresh air.
Henry Miller
#28. Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
Gordon Allport
#29. It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.
Ian Brown
#31. Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
Harry Browne
#32. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.
Roy Peter Clark
#33. I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.
Michael Cunningham
#34. Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#35. I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.
Joe Jonas
#36. Wouldn't it be totally wrong and irresponsible of someone like the Apostle John, and especially the Apostle Paul, not to include any mention of hell or eternal torment in their books? And even moreso in the book of Acts, where the Good News is being proclaimed to Jew and Gentile alike?
Julie Ferwerda
#37. Small talk acts like your toothpaste that helps combat this process with good conversational hygiene. Here
Jack Steel
#38. Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
Vivian Campbell
#39. for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts . . ., on those, she
Ursula Maria Mandel
#40. Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
Pope Francis
#41. When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.
Gary Blair
#43. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
#45. Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.
M.J. Ryan
#46. The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit - but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.
Brandon Sanderson
#47. I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.
Misha Collins
#48. It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We'll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.
Tim Ryan
#49. You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.
Wilferd Peterson
#50. For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against any future lack of good material.
Michael Chabon
#51. I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
Kyan Douglas
#52. You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.
John Connolly
#53. Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible.
Oliver Burkeman
#54. Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.
Marvin J. Ashton
#55. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
#57. In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.
Vincent De Paul
#58. Horror is about fear, about rising dread and unknown terrors, and in the face of such nightmares, the acts of good people can seem insignificant.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#59. We often miss that our "righteous acts" are "filthy" before God. Not just our bad days, but our extremely good days too!
Jefferson Bethke
#60. Christianity always flourishes most as a life-giving minority, not as a powerful majority. It is through subversive, countercultural acts of love, justice, and service for the common good that Christianity has always gained the most ground.
Scott Sauls
#61. Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.
Dannion Brinkley
#62. That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
#64. It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
Carol Burnett
#65. Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#66. We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#67. There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
Mickey Gilley
#68. The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'
Brendan Myers
#69. When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.
Josef Skvorecky
#70. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
#71. By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#72. There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.
Warren Ellis
#73. ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.
Machado De Assis
#74. Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.
Spencer W. Kimball
#75. Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#76. One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.
Una McCormack
#77. When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.
Mark Matousek
#78. Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.
Janet Evanovich
#79. If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.
Mariano Rivera
#80. A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
Tacitus
#81. A good pitch is set up in three acts: The first act is the past, the second act is the present, and the third act is the future.
Austin Kleon
#82. I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
Marshall Field
#83. The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.
David Dunn
#84. We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
Bill Richardson
#85. An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
Thomas Aquinas
#86. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
John Darnielle
#87. Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.
Phil Mason
#88. All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
Peter McWilliams
#89. We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.
Matthew Arnold
#90. Police, I learned over the years, are like soldiers, normally good-natured people, but part of a culture of obedience to orders and capable of brutal acts against anyone designated as "the enemy" - in this case, the antiwar movement.
Howard Zinn
#91. He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good.
Paul Of The Cross
#92. All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
Gautama Buddha
#93. For Aristotle, it is not within our power to seek anything else, and thus /all/ acts have for their basic purpose the attainment of happiness or that which is good in itself and not merely as a means to something else.
Robert F. Almeder
#94. The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.
Jonathan Edwards
#95. When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.
Nostradamus
#96. I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
Stephen J. Cannell
#97. Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.
Emily Thorne
#98. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne Dyer
#99. I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.
Ann Louise Gittleman
#100. His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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