Throughout history it has been said that one person can make a positive impact on their immediate environment by doing good, thus changing the world. Even on a smaller scale, ideas such as Pay It Forward encourage individuals to perform just three acts of kindness/charity. One becomes three, three becomes nine, nine becomes twenty-seven and so on. However, there isn’t any room for narrow-mindedness when it comes to doing good. When your body is in the ground and your spirit returns to the ether your soul will encompass all you’ve done, good and bad.
So while you are being blessed to take another breath and see the sunshine of a brand new day, do good. You have to believe that you are powerful enough to infect others with goodness or else you are just taking up space. I am tempted to go in on this matter but I feel that the words of the GREATS, ascending from all walks of life, will suffice. Besides, you’re more likely to believe them than me so enjoy!
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” – H.I.M. Haile Selassie I
“Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” – Philippians 2:4
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato
“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” – Stephan Grellet
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” – Mother Teresa
“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!” – Sasha Azevedo
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” – Confucius
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Seneca
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” – Galatians 5:22
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams
“Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood.” – Muhammad
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – St. Basil
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” – George Sand
“Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.” – P. D. James
“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.” – Princess Diana
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” – John Andrew Holmes
“Help thy brother’s boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore.” – Hindu Proverb
“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike
“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.” – John Wesley
“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
“The good you do for others is less than the good you will get in return. The good you do for self stays with self and never multiplies.” – GradeAlpha
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.” – Albert Einstein
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” – Lao Tzu
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.” – German Proverb
“Lots of people think they’re charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don’t want.” – Myrtle Reed
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” – Homer
“Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.” – William Dean Howells
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?” – Rabbi Hillel
“The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.” – Dutch Proverb
“Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.” – Moliere
“Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.” – Vauvenargues, Marquis de
“Gifts have ribbons, not strings.” – Vanna Bonta
“A good chief gives, he does not takes.” – Mohawk Proverb
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.” – Walt Whitman
“What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.” – Jewish Proverb
“In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity…” – Alexander the Great
“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.” – Austin O’Malley
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.” – Charles Dickens
“Acts of loving-kindness now supersede sacrifices as the preferred way of attaining God’s forgiveness.” – Yochanan ben Zakkai
“Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.” – Proverb
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” – Mother Teresa
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” – Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
“If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart.” – Arab Proverb
“It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good.” – Greek Proverb
“Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.” – James Hamilton
“Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.” – Barbara Bush
“Give advice; if people don’t listen, let adversity teach them.” – Ethiopian Proverb
“Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.” – Tibetan Proverb
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.” – Helen Keller
“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.” – Alexander Pope
“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, “here, my poor man”, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself. It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
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