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Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
Sep 30, 2025
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
The value of a man resides in what he gives
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
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.
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.
Give something back by becoming more
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
What are you doing for others?
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.