Quotes About Giving

Giving was better than getting

I want to give back." He looked at her and said in all seriousness, "Why? What did you take?

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.

My wealth doesn't come from offerings alone.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.

If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.

I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

I have always given money away. I haven't always been wealthy - the opposite, in fact. But I have always felt that I wanted people to share it with me.

Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.

A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.