Doing Good Quotes

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Mind, Human

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Result, Capitalism

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, May, Strange

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

Good, Power, Wish

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire

Good, Once, Year

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Good, Busy

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Beautiful, Humanity

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles

Good, Deeds, Task

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Money, Giving

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Samuel Butler

Good, Evil, May

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Makes, Ourselves

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Douglas Horton

Good, Thinking, Thoughts

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
Brandon Lee

Life, Good, Live

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
Mark Wahlberg

Good, Mistakes, Sleep

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.
Simon Mainwaring

Work, Good, Positive

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Sea, Water

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson

Good, Great, Power

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

Work, Good, Concerned

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
Thorstein Veblen

Work, Good, Respect

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
Brandy Norwood

Work, Good, Great

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Karen Armstrong

Time, Good, Great

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Tryon Edwards

Good, Power, Means

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
Ice Cube

Work, Good, Worry

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
Ville Valo

Music, Good, Hate

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.
Holly Madison

Good, Real, Kids

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

Good, Yourself, Give

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
Alphonsus Liguori

Love, Good, God

They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
Davy Jones

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

Work, Good, Great

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