Doing Good Quotes (page 5)

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• busy
• no time
• business

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

• life
• good
• life death

What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death. Voltaire

• good
• to live
• die

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil. Brigham Young

• government
• difficult
• good

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. Daniel Webster

• good
• earth
• know

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. Matthew Arnold

• good
• road
• popular

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage. John Adams

• one day
• encouragement
• good

The aim to which I have aspired for so many years, my nightly dream, the object of my prayers in heaven, Security- I have gained it. It is God's will. I must do nothing contrary to the will of God. And why is it God's will? That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example, that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!... Victor Hugo

• good
• perfect
• hand

It doesn't seem like them, somehow, I said. They don't usually do good by stealth. No, Julian agreed, their left hand usually knows perfectly well what their right hand is doing. Barbara Pym

• earth
• sometimes
• accounting

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly. William Shakespeare

• good
• little
• evening

You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• love
• welcome
• waiting

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations torise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also waitnot for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the. Sun. Epictetus

• life
• good
• to live

Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. Chuck Palahniuk

• end
• saying
• mindfulness

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever. John Adams

• good
• powerful
• power

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Milton Friedman

• hurt
• enemy
• friend

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. Jonathan Swift