Quotes About Giving

I believe with great fortunes come great responsibility, so with our family's assets and many wealthy friends, we could help raise a lot of money to help others.

A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to give a lot of money to a particular cancer charity or to a group researching some particular disease or their alma mater. We haven't really found anything like that with Trump.

It's a very ancient culture, British culture. You can't be seen to be too wealthy, and you certainly can't be seen to be giving away any of your wealth either because that's sort of vulgar, too. It's funny, that, because in New York, if you are wealthy, you have to be philanthropic to be successful.

I felt very uncomfortable when I became wealthy. One of my ways of dealing with it was to give it forward right away.

Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?

I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

I'm just so very lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and giving back is a way for me to express my gratitude. I'm so lucky to be in a position to help people, and that's appealing to me.

I didn't have that growing up as a kid, people who gave back to the community and things like that. It was a dream of mine when I made it to always give back and be a positive impact and great role model.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

Charity should always be a constant.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

One of the main lessons I've learnt is to give back more than you take, and that has become a core part of my life.

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

I try to give back as much as I can to the community, especially in the area that I grew up in. I've donated costumes to charity.

I started covering Trump's charitable giving sort of by accident.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.