Henry David Thoreau Quotes

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.

Let no good deed go unpunished!

I like to give people equipment and stuff. For me, it's a kind of payback. Anyone who is an influence or hero for me, I'm always concerned with how I can balance the karma.

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.

I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.

It's easy to give back to people who are so genuine and kind.

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.