Julian Baggini Quotes

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

I'm weird. I still believe that when you do good deeds, you get something back in return. That's why I really enjoy helping other guys succeed.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

You give to get. Whether it's helping someone or training a kid, I believe you will be rewarded in some way.

Justice to others is charity for ourselves.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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.

If you are good to people, they reciprocate with good behaviour.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Good givers are great getters.

Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

Do good: we will meet one another there.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

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

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Every time you get something, give something away.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.