Doing Good Quotes
281 quotes by 231 authors
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Doing well is a result of doing good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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…
— Ramakrishna
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Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.†He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere…
— Joyce Meyer
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God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source…
— Brandon Sanderson
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little…
— Matt de la Pena
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I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end,…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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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…
— Scott Westerfeld
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It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the…
— Terry Pratchett
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We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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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…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
— Charles Dickens
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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
— Juliet Marillier
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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
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I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and…
— Randy Pausch
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I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are…
— Arundhati Roy
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Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.
— Mother Teresa
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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
Who Wrote These Doing Good Quotes
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