William Penn Quotes

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

We all have the duty to do good.

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

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.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.

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.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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.

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

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

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.