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We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
Oct 1, 2025
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
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.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.
Spread your love everywhere you go.
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.
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.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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.
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.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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.
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