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Doing Good Quotes - Page 2

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

Fanny Lewald
Pleasure Seeking, Goodness, Doing Good

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

Sean Parker
Thinking, Hats, Doing Good
"The Many Hats of Sean Parker" by Eric Blattberg, www.wired.com. June 22, 2011.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

Swami Vivekananda
Doing Good
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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

Samuel Richardson
Envy, Rich, Doing Good
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (fict.name.) (1811). “Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded”, p.281

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Done, Good Work, Doing Good
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Michel de Montaigne
Doing Good, Rejoice, Gratification
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.612, Stanford University Press

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Doing Good, Benevolence

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

Jimmy Reid
Secret, Want, Doing Good
"We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Doing Good, Acceptable
Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.155, University of Pennsylvania Press

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

Rene Balcer
Enough, Doing Good
"Fictional character: Arthur Branch". "Law & Order: Criminal Intent/ In the Wee Small Hours: Part 2", November 2005.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer, Headstone, Doing Good
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

He tried the luxury of doing good.

George Crabbe
Luxury, Doing Good
'Tales of the Hall' (1819) 'Boys at School' l. 139

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

Samuel Butler
Evil, May, Doing Good
Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

John Gay
Luxury, Giving, Doing Good

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

John Donne
Doing Good, Lost, Communion

Do well by doing good.

Benjamin Franklin
Doing Good, Wells
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

Arianna Huffington
World, Making Money, Doing Good
Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.44, Harmony

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

William Penn
Men, Suffering, Doing Good
Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Waiting, Batteries, Doing Good

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Easy, Goodness, Doing Good
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1882). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. Edinburgh ed”

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Richard Branson
Usual, Doing Good, Recognise

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing Good, Results, Wells

By doing good, we do well.

Rajiv Shah
Poverty, Doing Good, Wells

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

Oprah Winfrey
Hippie, Doing Good, Knows
Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Oliver Goldsmith
Learning, Luxury, Doing Good
Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.6

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