Beneficial Actions Quotes

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.

Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

A good deed is the best prayer.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

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.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.