Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

I find joy in giving donations.

If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.