Top 100 To Do Good Quotes

#1. If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

Ishmael

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#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

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#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

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#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

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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

Nazr Mohammed

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

Chris Cleave

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#9. It costs you something to do good!

Zora Neale Hurston

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#10. 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

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#11. 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

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

Rene Balcer

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#13. 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

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#14. 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

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

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

Charles Francis Richter

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

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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#19. 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

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#20. 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

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#21. 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

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

Pope Francis

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#23. 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

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#24. 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

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#25. 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

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#26. 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

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#27. 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

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

Plutarch

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#29. 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

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#30. 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

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#31. 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

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#32. 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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Eliphas Levi

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#35. 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

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

Helen Keller

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#37. 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

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#38. 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

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#39. 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

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

Confucius

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#41. 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

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#42. 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

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

Robert Browning

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#44. 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

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#45. 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

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#46. 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

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

Chris Marlow

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

Susan Cooper

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#49. 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

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#50. I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

Rose McIver

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#51. I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

A.S. Byatt

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#52. Cash said he was someone "made up of bad parts but was trying to do good.

Robert Hilburn

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#53. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

L. Tom Perry

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#54. Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

Walter E. Williams

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#55. Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

Barack Obama

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#56. We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Joseph Cook

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#57. We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.

Enrico Colantoni

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#58. One of my favorite operations managers often reminds people to "assume positive intent" - that is, when conflict arises between people or groups, assume that all parties are motivated by the same desire to do good by the company.

Anonymous

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#59. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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#60. The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.

Angela Carter

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#61. The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.

Tony Robbins

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#62. Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

Muhammad Ali

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#63. I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Dolly Parton

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#64. 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

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#65. The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

Marilyn Monroe

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#66. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher

Sergei Lukyanenko

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#67. The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.

Milton Friedman

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#68. There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#69. Life has taught me that men fear evil more than they aspire to do good.

Karin Cox

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#70. 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

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#71. Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Denis Diderot

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#72. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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#73. Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

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#74. I think with the needs to feed the world's population, to end starvation, plant sciences offer great opportunities to do good and also to develop industry in St. Louis.

William Henry Danforth

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#75. It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.

Katrina Kaif

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#76. There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

Alexandra Fuller

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#77. No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

Henry Clay Trumbull

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#78. You may never know a night's peace again. Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill.

Jim Butcher

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#79. In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

Ferdie Pacheco

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#80. Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

Robert Penn Warren

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#81. To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Samuel Parr

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#82. Each of us deserves a life where we get paid to fulfill our purpose, in an organization that consciously chooses to do good.

Dan Pontefract

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#83. 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

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#84. There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!

Sergei Lukyanenko

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#85. The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future - must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Hippocrates

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#86. The essence of right living is to do good to others.

Shri Radhe Maa

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#87. It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

John Magaro

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#88. You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.

Debasish Mridha

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#89. Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

Wilbert Rideau

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#90. Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good ...

Thomas Merton

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#91. If you're a real frogman," he said, "then every time a woman leaves your side, she'll feel better about herself." ... The message felt similar to what Earl had taught: being strong meant being able to do good, to lift up and protect those whose lives you touched.

Eric Greitens

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#92. Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.

Heenashree Khandelwal

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#93. Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.

David Nicholls

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#94. I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Alicia Keys

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#95. Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Desmond Tutu

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#96. How does one use power to do good, when wielding power requires one to do evil ?

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#97. Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

Abhishek Bachchan

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#98. In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

Milton Friedman

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#99. To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Gautama Buddha

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#100. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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