Doing Good – Quotes

There is physical evidence

There is physical evidence of the body’s response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good. Evelyn Lauder

The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you’ll still have a job when you’re 60? It’s a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the … Read more

So there I was

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good. Eric Clapton

What\\’s the level of

What’s the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What’s the price of that? And I don’t know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I’m a different person. I think I’ve matured to a great extent. I … Read more

Anyone can see that

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving. Emanuel Swedenborg

Workers for Christ are

Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We … Read more

Do not go out

Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any … Read more

… the connection between

… the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American \”greatness\”, to hierarchies of race, to the perils of \”other\” revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas … Read more

In doing good, we

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call … Read more

If we make sacrifices

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving … Read more