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Goodness and Giving QuotesFamous Goodness and Giving quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, La Rochefoucauld, William Penn, Baltasar Gracian, William Blake and others.
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[highlight-text]Gifts are hooks.
Martial
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[highlight-text]A good man never dies.
Callimachus
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[highlight-text]God loveth a cheerful giver.
Bible
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[highlight-text]No good deed ever goes unpunished.
Brooks Thomas
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[highlight-text]Generosity is the vanity of giving.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Good things are not done in a hurry.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Bad is never good until worse happens.
Danish Proverb
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[highlight-text]The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Ignatius Loyola
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[highlight-text]Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
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[highlight-text]Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Erich Fromm
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[highlight-text]The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
Bible
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[highlight-text]My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl Menninger
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[highlight-text]In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
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[highlight-text]Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
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[highlight-text]Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required.
Bible
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[highlight-text]General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.
Jewish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Siddhartha Buddha
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[highlight-text]He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.
Edwin Markham
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[highlight-text]If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
Lord Acton
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[highlight-text]The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.
D. L. Coles
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[highlight-text]Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.
John Fountain
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[highlight-text]There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.
Homer
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[highlight-text]Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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[highlight-text]The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
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[highlight-text]We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
Rene Char
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[highlight-text]This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
George R. Gissing
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[highlight-text]There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
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[highlight-text]The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.
Sven Halla
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[highlight-text]He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.
Bushrod H. Campbell
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[highlight-text]The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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[highlight-text]Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
Sara Jeannette Duncan
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[highlight-text]If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.
George Linnaeus Banks
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[highlight-text]If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.
Robertson Davies
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[highlight-text]There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.
Sign in Springdalea
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[highlight-text]A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
John O'Keeffe
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[highlight-text]You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer
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[highlight-text]He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows; he breathes but does not live.
Sanskrit Proverb
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[highlight-text]Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever; Do noble things not dream them all day long; And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
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[highlight-text]I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
Stephen Grellet
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[highlight-text]As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
William James
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[highlight-text]We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl