Thomas Guthrie Quotes

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.

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.

I give with reason.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

To be happy, make other people happy.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.