Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, 'That's cool, whatever.' But now, that's what I'm most appreciative of.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

Every day I am on this Earth, I will do all I can for so many important causes.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.