To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Mark Twain There are friends who are there for you in times of need and there are those that always begin with an excuse for arriving too late to help. Cynthia Sherman I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. Abraham Lincoln If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent. Sir Thomas Browne It is his nature, not his standing that makes the good man. Syrus Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. Samuel Johnson The deeper one falls into the bottomless soul, the more one begins to see the potential for goodness, the instinctive motions that hasten our good deeds into being and the ground of what may assemble the greatest most selfless and enduring love. Quote from: Nightmares by Paul Winner: Woof! Writers on dogs by Lee Montgomery A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Shelley I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it: for I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet aka Etienne de Grellet It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. Emerson Loving kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. Somerset Maugham All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff. Stendhal Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. Cervantes For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. William Shakespeare Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere ‘tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. Shakespeare It is not enough to do good, one must do it in the right way. John Morley We cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefits we receive must be rendered again line for line deed for deed to somebody. Emerson A gift with a kind countenance is a double present. Thomas Fuller In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Bible quotes Matthew 5:16 N.I.V The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb Goodwill itself can only be maintained by mutual respect and true friends must be trustworthy equals. Jenny Quist Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden. Pascal Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers. Woodrow Wilson It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Charles Dudley Warner A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. Richard Steele Too many have dispensed with generosity to practice charity. Albert Camus A young man sent to death row as a teenager writes: “The sheriff did the best thing anyone ever did for me. When I passed my General Educational Diploma, he let me go to the graduation ceremony-cap and gown, suit and tie, no handcuffs, no shackles. He got my mom to buy two long-stemmed roses, one for my teacher and one for my girlfriend. He made the guards wear suits and ties like everybody else. That’s the best thing anyone ever did for me in my life” Quote source: No Choir Boy by Susan Kuklin How far that little candle throws his beams; so shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shakespeare There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Emerson People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. … I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe. Julie Powell True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joy of others. Andre Gide
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