Sometimes we feel excited to help others. Sometimes we don’t feel like it at all. This is normal. Everyone feels this way sometimes. The good news is that you can get your good feelings back. You can find your drive to help others again.
Looking at do good be good quotes can help wake up those feelings. We have 125 quotes below to help you feel inspired again. They will remind you why helping others feels so good. These words can push you to keep being kind and helpful.
When you help other people, something amazing happens. You get good things back, too. It might not be what you expect, but good things will come your way. The world has a funny way of giving back to people who give to others.
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These Do Good Be Good Quotes are here to Guide Us
1. “Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” — Roy T. Bennett
2. “People want to be led, but they don’t want to be forced. Leading with good deeds can make a difference.”
3. “I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” — Thomas Jefferson
4. “One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.” — E.M. Forster
5. “There is no better feeling than giving someone else joy.”
6. “Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness, always.” — Rod Williams
7. “A community is a place where people live, work, and play. It’s also a place where people can change lives.”
8. “Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.” — Robin S. Sharma
9. “Being kind to others may not seem like much, but if enough people do it, it can make a huge impact as a whole and even save lives.”
10. “Now we have the opportunity to start over and try to do better this time around.” — Shaun David Hutchinson
11. “It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day world and forget about the bigger picture. But remember, every good deed matters.”
12. “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop
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13. “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. “Transformational leaders empower their followers to do better and become better.” — Gift Gugu Mona
15. “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.
16. “Charity means giving someone a smile they may not have otherwise had.”
17. “I’m not saying we won’t fight, or you won’t want to throw those daggers at me when I’m inevitably an ass, but I swear I will always strive to do better.” — Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
18. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — St. Francis of Assisi
19. “Ultimately, giving back to the world doesn’t just help others; it helps us too.”
20. “Do better should be what all who carry any kind of privilege in this society should say to ourselves and to each other.” — Shellen Lubin
21. “The sense of fulfillment you get when you help someone else will be with you forever.”
22. “It’s not how much money someone gives that matters, but rather how much they care.”
23. “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” — Zeno
24. “Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.” — Kevin Heath
25. “Helping others is something that can start anywhere.”
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26. “Every day grants us opportunities to do good. Take advantage of them. Do good. Be happy.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
27. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” — Mother Teresa
28. “Those in need will be eternally grateful for the help you provide.”
29. “Don’t let a cruel word escape your mouth. There’s no greater sin than breaking a heart.” — Kamand Kojouri
30. “Together doing good make a difference, one volunteer at a time.”
31. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
32. “Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.” — Kevin Heath
33. “Every morning, we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better.” — Alan Bonner
34. “To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.” — Pearl S. Buck
35. “Remember, there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” — Scott Adams
36. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” — Aldous Huxley
37. “Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in our own.” — Adam Lindsay
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38. “Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!” — Anton Chekhov
39. “You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down.” — Josh Shipp
40. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Gandhi
42. “It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” — Arthur Calwell
43. “I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.” — Albert Einstein
44. “The goodness you give away never leaves you—it transforms you from the inside out.”
45. “Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.” — Mother Teresa
46. “Character isn’t built in grand gestures, but in the small choices you make when no one is watching.”
47. “It is not enough to be compassionate – you must act.” — The Dalai Lama
48. “The mirror of your character reflects the sum of your daily choices.”
49. “There’s always room to be a better person. Always.” — Sonya Teclai
50. “Your legacy is written not in what you achieve, but in how you treat others along the way.”
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51. “Be good, do good, feel good—it’s the simplest formula for a life that matters.”
52. “The echo of your kindness eventually becomes the voice of your character.”
53. “I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks, and I still believe that they are better than the alternative.” — Neil Gaiman
54. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso
55. “The person you are becoming is always watching the person you are right now.”
56. “As long as you’re alive, there’s always a chance things will get better.” — Laini Taylor
57. “The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.” — Maya Angelou
58. “What you give to the world has a way of giving back to who you are.”
59. “And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
60. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Gandhi
61. “Small acts of love create big changes in the heart that gives them.”
62. “As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.” — Tamara Taylor
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63. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” — Carrie Fisher
64. “Your impact on others becomes the foundation of your impact on yourself.”
65. “It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.” — Albert Einstein
66. “Your heart expands with every person you choose to understand rather than judge.”
67. “When you are on a downswing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change, and things will get better. There are good times coming.” — Bob Proctor
68. “When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” — The 14th Dalai Lama
69. “Every choice to lift someone up lifts something in you as well.”
70. “Your greatness is measured by your horizons.” — Michelangelo
71. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
72. “Your influence grows not from what you demand, but from what you give without asking.”
73. “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” — Abraham Maslow
74. “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.” — Saint Basil
75. “People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.” — Dorothy Day
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76. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” —Charles Dickens
77. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill
78. “Do good work in the world, and let the world do its good work in shaping you.”
79. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe
80. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.” — Socrates
81. “Every choice to do good is a choice to become good—choose consciously.”
82. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett
83. “The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.” — Robert Brault
84. “Be good in your thoughts, better in your words, and best in your actions.”
85. “Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” — Aldous Huxley
87. “Do good work with your hands, good work with your words, and good work with your heart.”
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88. “As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.” — Frank Ocean
89. “When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” — Elliot Page
90. “Be good by being useful, be useful by being kind, be kind by being yourself.”
91. “Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.” — Brandon Lee
92. “The most beautiful people are those who make others feel beautiful.”
93. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou
94. “Your inner peace grows in direct proportion to the peace you help create around you.”
95. “Go for that idea and dream which magnifies your ability to illuminate the world.” — Hiral Nagda
96. “The person you become is always the sum of how you’ve chosen to treat others.”
97. “What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
98. “The most lasting happiness comes from making happiness possible for others.”
99. “What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.” — Dorothea Dix
100. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” — Earl Nightingale
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101. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” — William Shakespeare
102. “The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.” — James Baldwin
103. “The light you shine on others eventually illuminates your own path forward.”
104. “Doing a little bit of good here and there makes everything a little bit better, everywhere.” — Richie Norton
105. “Every moment of kindness is a moment of becoming—choose wisely, grow gently.”
106. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank
107. “The person you become tomorrow is shaped by the love you choose to share today.”
108. “This world can be a better place, if good women are given the space to do good.” — Gift Gugu Mona
109. “Your character is the sum of all the small choices you make in quiet moments.”
110. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Francis of Assisi
111. “The journey to greatness begins with the first step of genuine care.”
112. “Even if you made a small impact on someone’s life today, you gave that person a reason to rise up from their current level.” — Hiral Nagda
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113. “My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don’t crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.” — Kayvan Novak
114. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
115. “Your soul grows in proportion to the love you give away.”
116. “Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.” — Douglas Horton
117. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” — Benjamin Disraeli
118. “Every choice to help others is a choice to become someone worth knowing.”
119. “Compassion is both the cause and effect of a life well-lived.”
120. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better.” — Robert F. Kennedy
121. “Your authentic self emerges through the practice of authentic care.”
122. “Believe that being a good person comes down to doing small things for others and you can achieve so much.”
123. “Work on your character, let life fall into place.” — Sonia Rumzi
124. “There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.” — Michel de Montaigne
125. “Your worth is measured not by what you have, but by what you give with what you’ve been given.”
Did these do good be good quotes inspire you? I hope so!
It may feel like you’re not doing well and that nothing you do is enough. But, please, do not listen to that negative voice in your head. And don’t worry, your efforts will not go to waste! Together, we can make a difference in the lives of people and the world.
Keep being superb and have a great day!
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