Michael Franti Quotes

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

You don't need a reason to help people.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

Do good things for other people.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

We all have the duty to do good.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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