Top 1200 Doing Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

My mission is to make the world happy and cute and to love everyone. I think I'm doing a pretty good job.

There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

Well, you can't throw heavy, analytical, thought-provoking songs at people 24/7. It's been my experience over the last 20 years that on a rare occasion, in a live setting, if you can slow people down to listen to two good ballads, then you're doing pretty good. Then throw a tempo at 'em. Then have fun.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population know what the government, the people who rule you are doing. They want to keep it secret of course.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.

What fun that is, doing voices. I would do them every day if they wanted me to. It's so much fun to go to work and not shave and wear your tennis shoes and your gym clothes. As opposed to having to shave, shower, go to the gym, look good, get ready, go to makeup and hair, and all that stuff. I love doing voices. It's just so relaxing.

Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

MTV Unplugged is an interesting platform. They are doing a good job promoting a kind of music that ought to be heard.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.

Don't tell me what I'm not doing when I'm doing what you don't think I'm doing!

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour and there's electricity from the audience, if you're getting a good response, then that's the positive side of the mojo where I could feel cocky and just know I'm doing good and then there's a time all of a sudden when you're alone and you just don't know if people will like it.

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day, since we're taking other people's shekels to do it, and their work is being able to make a return out of it, it forces you to consider the fact that you're doing it for other people. The whole construct is built around the assumption that it's going to get shared, and that someone else is going to find value in it - entertainment, catharsis, enlightenment, or whatever.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.

The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

My goal is get those chart positions, doing something good in music, and seeing that money in the bank.

Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.

I hope I work effectively, but I never feel I have exhausted what I should be doing... I believe we have a responsibility to be a good influence on others.